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Anti-Muslim Bigotry and Far-Right TerrorResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Far-right ideology is fuelled by such a large mishmash of ideas that censoring anti-Muslim rhetoric is futile for stopping attacks.

Apocalypse of Our TimesBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Review of Gerald Horne's "Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism," a look at the 17th century origins of the slave trade.

Argentina's Indigenous People Fight for Land RightsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Indigenous people in Argentina live with the constant threat of eviction on land to which they own no title. Much of their predicament is due to colonial laws and attitudes that persist even though constitutional changes now recognize Indigenous land rights as an urgent issue. Deforestation due to expanding agriculture exacerbates this conflict.

Assange's Indictment Treats Journalism as a CrimeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The charges against Assange send a message to journalists that they are in danger for doing their jobs. The UK can and should deny extradition of Assange to the US.

Behind the popular revolt in SudanResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Interview with journalist and former Sudanese Communist Party activist Rashid Saeed Yagoub. Amgad Fareid Eltayeb outlines the situation and background to the revolt in Sudan. Also, a solidarity statement issued by the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists.

Beyond Corporate PowerResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019By concentrating on corporate power we can end up looking to the state for solutions. But the only way to achieve even the moderate reforms necessary is through revolutionary mass movements.

Black Liberation Struggle: The Key to American Socialist RevolutionPart TwoResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Everybody is familiar with Marx's famous saying, in Capital, Vol. 1 (1867), that "labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded." This was more than a moral appeal against slavery. It was a statement of fact: Marx recognized that so long as half the country was dominated by slavery, workers would never be able to fight for even basic trade-union rights. The Civil War paved the way for the growth of American capitalism and the labor movement.

The Boeing Way: Blaming Dead PilotsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing about the recent crashes of Boeing 737 MAXs. The Representatives (many of whom received campaign contributions from Boeing) actively tried to shift blame from the company and place it on the dead pilots.

Brazilian dam disaster 'is part of a pattern'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A team of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) academics is marking the international day of action for rivers by hanging out the dirty laundry of a very dirty company.

Breach of EthicsLeaked Chats Between Brazilian Judge and Prosecutor Who Imprisoned Lula Reveal Prohibited Collaboration and Doubts Over EvidenceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Leaked documents show that Sergio Moro, a judge at the time, collaborated heavily with investigators in Operation Car Wash, a serious breach of judicial impartiality. Even critics of Lula who consider him corrupt doubt the veracity of aspects of the investigation.

Breaking the ImpasseBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Review of Cracks in the Wall by Ben White, a hopeful book about weakening pro-Zionism in public consensus.

Breaking the Left's Gay TabooResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A review of Allen Young's "Left, Gay and Green: a Writer's Life" that includes much historical context and the reviewer's personal history.

Britain's Witchfinders are Ready to Burn Jeremy CorbynResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The suspension of MP Chris Williamson for alleged anti-semitism is part of a smear campaign against Corbyn. It is also a by-product of all criticism of Israel being labelled anti-semitism.

California Burning, PG&E BankruptResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A synopsis of PG&E's history of negligence and corruption which has caused wildfire disasters. The company tries to escape consequences but others are demanding change.

A Call to ActionBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Positive review - with caveats - of a book about how we can transform society.

The Chickens Come Home to Roost ... in SyriaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019American meddling in the Middle East since 9/11 may finally be reaching a crisis as the process produces irreconcilable conflicts with allies.

Collusion in Plain SightResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The media should use the same language for Trump's pandering to corporations and failure to publicly condemn white supremacist violence as they do for his supposed collaboration with Russia.

Colorblind Law -- NOTBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Positive review of Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. It looks at the history of how states circumvented federal desegregation laws.

Dances of Disinformation: the Partisan Politics of the Integrity InitiativeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The Integrity Initiative - a supposedly non-partisan agency aiming at dismantling state sponsored misinformation - was exposed as funded by a UK government agency to undermine the opposition. This brings into question the plausibility of an impartial or apolitical playing field.

Deep Fakes: Will AI Swing the 2020 Election?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The ability of AI to create credible-looking fake videos could pose a threat to candidates at election time but gullibility was a problem before computer technology.

Disciplined for Acting with IntegrityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The smear campaign against two profs at University of Michigan participating in BDS harks back to McCarthyist attempts to silence the left at that same institution.

Distorting 'Democracy' in Venezuela CoverageResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Round up of some of the many media outlets that call Guaidó's coup attempt in Venezuela a democratic movement and refer to democratically elected president Maduro as a dictator.

Do we fetishize indigenous people?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Although well-intentioned, Western representations of and interactions with Indigenous people can undermine their humanity.

Emulating the circle of lifeWe need to rethink efficiency in our food system.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Developing food systems that simulate the processes found in nature can make food production more sustainable.

Europe's Political Turmoil -- Part IIResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Could the rise of the far right across Europe actually lead to establishing fascist regimes? Overemphasis on this fear may divert attention from where it is needed.

The Evidence We Were Never Meant to See About the Douma Gas AttackResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A report that conflicts with claims that two cylinders containing chemicals were dropped from an aircraft was suppressed by the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons. This erodes public trust in the institution and is distressing given the recent history of using dubious existence of deadly weapons to justify wars.

Face Surveillance Is a Uniquely Dangerous TechnologyCounterSpin interview with Shankar Narayan on facial recognitionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Lightly edited transcript of an interview regarding face recognition technology and how it will impact people who are already over-policed.

The Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge and Approved IdeasResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The university environment should be the last place where dangerous ideas, and views, are stifled and stomped upon. In actual fact, we are seeing the reverse; from students unions to middle- and upper-managerial parasites and administrators, the contrarian idea must be boxed, the controversial speaker silenced and sent beyond the pale.

The FBI in EcuadorBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Review of a book detailing the FBI's actions in Latin America throughout the 20th century.

The FBI's police state operation against TrumpResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The allegations that Trump is a Russian agent lack credibility. The FBI's invesitigation seems more like the agency is attempting to overthrow an elected government - a threat the FBI has posed in the past.

Fighting Against Racism - And For a Better Paycheck - On the DocksResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Dockworker labour solidarity. Heavily references two books: 'Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area' by Peter Cole and 'Choke Points' essays edited by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness.

Former UAW vice president pleads guilty to conspiracy in bribery schemeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Norwood Jewell, former vice president of the United Auto Workers pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate labor laws. There could be even higher ranking officials charged, highlighting the conflicting interests of union bosses vs workers.

"Free Trade" Is Today's Imperialism by the 1 PercentBuilding alternatives to free trade must become an essential component of a more progressive US foreign policy.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Principles of "free" trade allow global North corporations to continue the colonial policies that made them their wealth. Alternatives to free trade need to shift power and wealth to the global South to create fairness and progress.

French Democracy Dead or Alive?The Gilets Jaunes in 2019Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019An overview of the Yellow Vests: their methods, demands, media coverage and summary of major events from November 2018 to January 2019.

From Pre-K On, US Schools Privilege the Already PrivilegedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The college bribery admissions scandal is only the extreme end of the inequality in the education system. Public policies, such as school funding based on property values, disadvantage children in low-income communities starting as early as pre-K.

The Global Assault on Indigenous PeoplesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Focusing on the the NgäbeBuglé in Panama, a look at the Indigenous people who have their way of life is destroyed by capitalism.

Google Bans Press TVResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Social media companies are banning media outlets in the name of alleged 'hate speech' but the companies' contacts and their targets make them instruments of government censorship.

Green construction and worker safetyGreen construction yields promising results for the future of our planet. But new technologies come with new safety risks for workers.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Eco-friendly construction exposes workers to new methods and materials which do not have the standard safety practices of those that are more established.

Greenwashing the Climate CatastropheResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Many solutions to climate change such as the Green New Deal do not address the real threat to the planet: capitalism. They in fact are a smokescreen under which to conduct business as usual.

Hebron - the heart of the occupationJustice for Palestine is central to the left. The situation in Hebron is a good example why.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The history and current situation in Hebron.

"How Could They?" Why Some Americans Were Drawn to the Communist Party in the 1940sResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019We did not become Communists because of any adoration of Stalin. We wanted a better world, one in peace, and we admired the giant achievements of the Soviet people in overcoming illiteracy and building a giant industrial base which proved so vital in defeating the Nazis. We also admired an economy which suffered no joblessness while nearly the entire world groaned under the Great Depression.

How SDS Imploded: an Inside AccountResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A look at how Students for a Democratic Society imploded 50 years ago and how it is similar to the behaviour of political parties in the US today.

How Urban Planners Promote GentrificationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A review of Samuel Stein's book "Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State" which looks at how private interests and government promote gentrification.

How would a revolutionary government protect the environment?There is an enormous unused human potential waiting to be drawn into the job of saving the ecosphere. How can it be mobilized?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A look at how a revolutionary government would combat climate change. Includes a lengthy excerpt from the pamphlet The Green Tax Fraud by Dick Nichols.

'I lost four sons': In Kashmir, women suffer brunt of conflictWomen's Day is a grim reminder of atrocities and hardships faced by the women of the region in decades-long conflict.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Women in Kashmir suffer the loss of their sons, husbands, and fathers in ongoing conflict.

Illusion or Advance? Ecosocialists debate the 'Green New Deal'Activists from System Change Not Climate Change discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Green New Deal proposal.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Activists from 'System Change Not Climate Change' discuss the strengths and weaknesses of 'Green New Deal' proposals, and how the left should respond.

Imagination and Nuclear WeaponsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Imagining the horror of nuclear war is not enough to prevent it. Governments with nuclear weapons must be forced to disarm.

In Praise of Direct Action (and More)Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The speed with which air traffic controllers' work stoppage put an end to the government shutdown shows the power of direct action especially when it threatens capitalist profit.

In The Eye of the Beholder: USA History of Imprisoning Women PoliticalsPart One of review and discussion of Linda G. Ford's Women Politicals in America: Jailed Dissenters from Mother Jones to Lynne StewartResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019An in-depth review of Linda Ford's "Women Politicals in America: Jailed Dissenters from Mother Jones to Lynne Stewart" (2018). The author draws on his personal experience as a journalist and organizer.

The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden TroveResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019First Look Media, owner of The Intercept, is shutting down access to Snowdens leaked NSA documents. Their reporters still have copies of all the documents and are looking to find a new outlet for them.

The Irish Language and Marxist MaterialismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A review of Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin's book "Language From Below: the Irish language, ideology and power in 20th century Ireland" which looks at the role language and nationalism has played in Irish liberation movements.

Israel Again Bombs Gaza - But Is It "In Response"?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019In this case it is undoubtedly the Palestinian side that is responding to Israeli violence. But even if Palestinians would fire missiles without an immediate cause it would be within the full rights of the Palestinian people. In its 1982 Resolution 37/43 the General Assembly of the United Nations reaffirmed: "the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;"The UN GA resolution is standing international law. The Palestinian people have the right to resist against the occupation force. In practice as well as legally Israel is a colonial entity that occupies Palestinian land, especially in Gaza and the West Bank. Any armed struggle by Palestinians against the occupation, provoked or not, is thus morally and legally justified.But do not expect that any 'western' mainstream media will ever point that out.

Judicial Secrecy: Where Justice Goes to Die Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The trend of courts imposing gag orders and press bans on judicial proceedings is a hallmark of police states and a threat to freedom and justice.

Karl Kautsky as Architect of the October RevolutionPart 2: 1917: The Bolsheviks Apply Kautskys TacticsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The Bolsheviks came into 1917 with two pieces of Kautsky advice firmly under their belts: enlist the peasantry as a revolutionary ally, and do not deviate from militant anti-agreementism.

Kashmiris launch calendar to remember disappeared loves onesAt least 8,000 people have disappeared since 1989 according to human rights groups, leaving relatives in no-man's landResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Women whose husbands were disappeared have spent decades wondering what happened to them and fighting for justice. They and a group representing families of disappeared persons have published a calendar commemerating 12 victims.

Kautsky, Lenin, and the transition to socialismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Counterposing Karl Kautsky's perspective of a "democratic road to socialism" as against a supposed Leninist "insurrectionary strategy" presents a false framework for the debate.

Legal Weed Is Great, But Black and Brown Communities Can't Be Left BehindMarijuana legalization must bring both equity and justice for those most impacted by the War on Drugs.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Marginalized populations that were hardest hit by the War on Drugs should be at the forefront of legalization legislation as well as recipients of the tax revenue from legalized marijuana.

A Liberal Elite Still Luring Us Towards the Abyss Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A recent manifesto decrying "populism and nationalism" see today's problems as coming from the abandonment of liberal ideals when they are in fact caused by extreme adherence to them.

Local fishermen: caught between the pros and cons of traceabilityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Consumers concerned about the environmental impact of fishing are demanding more transparency and accountablity from the industry. Ironically, the resulting regulations are prohibitive to the small scale fishermen that are the most sustainable part of the industry.

The London Climate Protests - Raising The AlarmResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Analysis of media coverage of the climate crisis looks at how many outlets try to discredit 'alarmist' activists. However a sense of panics is rational and needed to avoid catastrophe.

The Long Goodbye of Antiwar ProtestResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019There is a lack of real opposition - both by other governments and the public - to US-led regime changes.

The Menace of Right "Populism"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Editorial about Trump and right-wing regimes world-wide and the opportunities for left-wing organizing.

The Militarization of EmpathyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Surprise reunions between returning soldiers and their families are a major spectacle in US media. But these heartwarming scenes serve as a distraction from the activities of the soldiers while they are overseas.

MLK in Memphis, 1968Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A look at MLK's actions and speeches in Memphis and their relevance today.

Moving past climate denialDeniers feel that the impacts of climate breakdown don't matter, but the solutions pose an imminent threat, new research shows.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Katharine Hayhoe, a climate researcher and political science professor argues that it's more productive to show climate change skeptics that solutions are beneficial to them rather than trying to make them believe in the science of climate change.

The new Jewish leftIn Canada, young Jews are fighting antisemitism while opposing the Israeli occupationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Young Jewish people in North America are fighting antisemitism while opposing Israel's occupation of Palestine.

Nicaragua: The Other Revolution BetrayedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A look at the current neoliberal regime in Nicaragua and how the Sandinista government failed to deliver on the promise of the 1979 Revolution.

1919: The Year the World Was on FireResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A sprawling take on international revolutionary events of 1919 using Emma Goldman, Bill Haywood, and John Reed as focal points.

On the Democratic Character of Socialist RevolutionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Great social movements redefine legality and human rights, setting in motion a process of change that becomes irresistible. Socialists utilize electoral opportunities while recognizing that they are far from the whole story. A workers government committed to socialism will probably be achieved as the democratic ratification of a program that has already gained majority support through discussion and mobilization among the population at large.

The Peking University Marxist Society and Student ActivistsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Their report on the living and working conditions of university staff approaches Mao's suggestion that 'knowledge of any kind is inseparable from direct experience' when it states that 'it is only through practice that you can produce genuine knowledge.'

The PersecutedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Fundamentalist Christians maintaining that they are persecuted may not make sense given the prevalence of sympathetic and Christian-owned media and businesses. Listening to a sermon reveals they see the inability to impose their views in society as persecution.

The politics of identity, left and rightResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019One of the consequences of the bifurcated debate is historical amnesia about the origins of identity politics. Most people imagine that its roots are on the left. In fact, they lie on the reactionary right, in the counter-Enlightenment of the late 18th century. It wasnt then called the politics of identity. It was called racism. It is, however, in the concept of race -- the insistence that humans are divided into a number of essential groups, and that ones group identity determines ones moral and social place in the world -- that we find the original politics of identity, out of which ideas of white superiority emerged.

Press Freedom is Under Threat in the Land of its BirthResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The US was not among the conulates protesting controversial new extradition bill in Hong Kong. They can't with a straight face object to Hong Kong passing an act that endorses extradition for political crimes while Washington is pursuing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

The Prisoner Says No to Big Brother Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A tribute to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Includes details of some of the corruption they have exposed.

Radical AmbitionThe New Left in TorontoResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2019The story of Toronto's New Left from its initial stirrings in the late 1950s to its 'long, ambiguous goodbye in the early 1980s.

Reclaiming control of Indonesia's oceansResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Indonesian activists are building a global movement to resist the financialisation and privatisation of the world's oceans.

Recording Reveals Oil Industry Execs Laughing at Trump AccessResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A 2017 recording of Independent Petroleum Association of America executives reveals them revelling in their access to high levels of government. Since then many environmental protections have been rescinded.

Republican Estate Tax Repeal: An Effort to Avoid Ever Being TaxedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019While Sen. Bernie Sanders proposes an important increase in the estate tax, Republicans are gearing for its complete repeal. Morris Pearl of the group Patriotic Millionaires, talks about how the Republicans plan would help the rich from ever being taxed.

Rigging the Science of GMO EcotoxicityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Scientific article about dangers of GMO plants and techniques used by developers to disguise harms to get GMOs through testing.

A Robust Doctrine: Break the Taboo on Odious Debts and their RepudiationThe Challenges for the European Left regarding Debt and the BanksResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019An interview with Éric Toussaint, the author of The Debt System. A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation. He discusses debt, illegetimate debt and the instances in history when debts were repudiated.

Rooting rebellion in natureResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Reflections on the legacy of philosopher and geologian Thomas Berry, ten years after his death.

Russia and the DemocratsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The Democratic Party's insistence of Russian meddling in the election show how out of touch and unfit their leadership is.

Russiagate and the Dry Rot in American JournalismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The idea that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election is used by both liberals and the right to maintain the status quo. Comparisons to Hunter S. Thompson show how staid mainstream news has become.

Shedding Light on Forced Child Pregnancy and Motherhood in Latin AmericaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019 Published: 2018Research and campaigns by women's rights advocates are beginning to focus on the problem of Latin American girls who are forced to bear the children of their rapists, with the lifelong implications that entails and without the protection of public policies guaranteeing their human rights.

'Slaves of the sea'The long-forgotten Jaladas community and their need for policy inclusion Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Due to socio-econimical, political, and geographical reasons, the Jaladas community has been negelected and they are vulnerable. Relevant sectoral policies enacted by the government of Bangladesh would address these issues.

The Strange Workings of Identity and Adolph Reed Jr.'s ThoughtResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019One of the cornerstones of the socialist approach to identity is the insistence that identities are not naturally occurring but are, rather, the products of history. The controversy surrounding Reeds work offers an opportunity to try to clarify our understanding of identity.

Swedish Sex Pistol Aimed at AssangeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019By asserting the extraterritorial jurisdiction of American law to demand the extradition of another countrys (Australia) citizen from a third country (Great Britain) for activities that took place entirely outside the US, the present indictment is, as Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalists, points out: a direct threat to journalists everywhere in the world .Under this rubric, anyone anywhere in the world who publishes information that the U.S. government deems to be classified could be prosecuted for espionage.

A Tale of Two Toilets: Profiting from Necessity?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019As indoor plumbing arrived in the U.S. in the 1840s and Dr. John Snows treatise on sewage-contaminated water causing cholera came out in 1855, the current global toilet situation cannot be attributed to lack of knowledge, technology, or resources.

Thank Russia for Winning World War IIResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Our Soviet allies barely held on alone for three years against Hitler, yet conventional wisdom is that we won the war because we equipped Soviets to die for us. This is propaganda  the USSR bore more than 90% of its own wartime industrial burden.

'They Had Already Decided They Wanted to Invade Iraq'CounterSpin interviews with Robert Dreyfuss and Diana Duarte on media and the Iraq WarResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019MP3s and transcripts of two interviews about justifications for the Iraq war. One focused on intelligence on WMDs and the other on women's rights.

Three Lessons for the Left from the Mueller Inquiry Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russiagate is never going to uncover collusion between Donald Trump's camp and the Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election.

Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern PsychiatryResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Much of modern psychiatry is based on unscientific theories even many practitioners of its find problematic. Since Thomas Paine knew Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), considered the "father of American psychiatry," this article draws parallels between Paine's criticisms of religion with those of psychiatry today.

UN aviation body blocks critics onlineThe UNs aviation body is blocking climate critics on Twitter, accusing them of 'fake news' and 'spam'.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The International Civil Aviation Organization is blocking people who interact with them on Twitter. They claim their critics' arguments are not 'fact-based.'

Unconditional support for Israel is unconditional support for injusticeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Like tens of thousands of Jews worldwide, we oppose Israel's ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and its regime of violence, intimidation and incarceration aimed at the Palestinian population of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. We challenge those who offer unconditional support for Israel to ask themselves if they would support the same violations of human rights and international law anywhere else in the world. We affirm that our criticism of Israel comes from an embrace of both Jewish and universal humanitarian values and has no relation whatsoever to antisemitism.

Unconditional support for Israel is unconditional support for injusticeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Like tens of thousands of Jews worldwide, we oppose Israel's ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and its regime of violence, intimidation and incarceration aimed at the Palestinian population of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. We challenge those who offer unconditional support for Israel to ask themselves if they would support the same violations of human rights and international law anywhere else in the world. We affirm that our criticism of Israel comes from an embrace of both Jewish and universal humanitarian values and has no relation whatsoever to antisemitism.

Undermining the watercycleA critical appraisal of the mining industry's contributions to the global water crisis.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The mining industry is often overlooked as a cause of the global water crisis. This article examines recent history of mining disasters and how the industry PR greenwashes its image.

The 'Unpeople' of South KoreaIdiocy and Violence of ImmigrationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Who are the unpeople of South Korea? They are an majority of illegal migrants who lack basic rights and security and believed to deserve it according to the laws and principles under which Korean society operates.

US Negotiations: Masters of DefeatsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A summary of several US attempts at diplomacy that have failed due to their unwillingness to make any concessions to the other party.

U.S.: We Will Break Your LegsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The US has threatened to deny visas to any ICC personnel investigating possible war crimes by U.S. forces. This should make clear the hypocrisy when the the US cites human rights violations as an excuse to invade other countries.

U.S.A : How Federal Workers Could Fight the ShutdownResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Federal workers have dealt with low pay, degraded working conditions, and repeated employer lockouts. If they want to improve their conditions, they'll have to organize.

The UTLA Victory in ContextResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A look at the bigger picture surrounding the LA teacher's strike as part of the national upsurge that began with the 2012 strike of the Chicago Teachers Union.

Venezuela Blitz - Part 2: Press Freedom, Sanctions And OilResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Analysis of corporate coverage of Venezuela reveals: reporting on the supposed lack of free press, and rarely mentioning the US's interest in their oil and effect of sanctions on the country.

The Violent History of the Venezuelan OppositionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Mainstream media paint Venezuelan opposition as peaceful heroes and President Maduro as a villain. Details about opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez show this to be blatant propaganda.

The War on Venezuela is Built on Lies Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Maduro, like Chavez before him, is a fairly elected leader with support from the people. Talk of his 'illegitmacy' is propaganda in service of the coup.

The War That Never EndsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019North Korean denuclearization is unlikely without concessions (such as sanctions relief) from the US side. How likely is the Trump administration to make such a deal?

Washington's Biggest Fairy Tale: 'Truth Will Out'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019The idea that the truth will eventually be exposed may be comforting to people that think we live in a transparent democracy. But this investigative journalist discusses how hard it is to get information from the government.

Water as a Form of Social ControlResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Whether in Palestine or Detroit, restricting access to water is a tactic used to deprive populations of personal and social agency with dire consequences to health.

Weaponized Social Media Is Driving the Explosion of FascismSocial media platforms give governments, extremists, haters and propagandists the ability to excite and incite hate amplified by algorithms.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Describing how social media wages war on reality by spreading propaganda. With examples from ISIS to Alex Jones.

The Western Media is Key to Syria DeceptionsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019An analysis of why western media has failed to practice any scepticism regarding claims that the Syrian government is using chemical weapons.

What's the alternative to factory farms?Book ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Mixed review of a collection of essays about industrial agriculture. Most of the papers point out the destructiveness of animal agriculture but neglect the wider issue of capitialism.

Why Activists FailResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Describes why activists have historically failed to make a real difference - they don't know how the world works. Describes how the world works and explains some components of nonviolent strategy for change.

Why Left Wing Populism Is Not EnoughResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Mainly a critique of Chantal Mouffe's book 'For a Left Populism,' discusses the shortcomings of a poplulism that downplays the role of class.

Why the Anthropocene is not 'climate change' - and why that mattersResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Reducing our current predicament to combatting climate change, or even narrower, reducing CO2 emissions fails to show the big picture of how humans have changed the planet. To contend with the Anthropocene we need to get rid of one-dimensional thinking of climate change.

Why the US is Persecuting AssangeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Governments don't like it when reporters disclose secrets that impede their preferred narrative. This article draws parallels between Assange and the work of Yemeni reporter Maad al-Zikry.

Why the US Puppet President of Venezuela is ToastResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019In the alternative universe of corporate media, which ignores the economic war being waged against Venezuela, Reuters bemoans that the crackdown on Guaidós agents has failed to receive significant retaliation from the international community. In reality, Venezuela has massively suffered from the US-orchestrated punishments for resisting reverting to the status of a client state.

The Yellow Vests of France: Six Months of StruggleResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019A look at the Yellow Vest movement in France after six months. Although they avoid structures of formal organizations they are converging with several other groups.

Yelp and the Myth of Consumer PowerResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2019Online reviews on Yelp have had a massive effect on the service industry but this should not be perceived as giving power to consumers. In the end it is only the platfrom that profits.

2018

Academics Who Serve as Israel's Useful IdiotsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018How derisively would we have treated an academic - an expert in human rights, no less - who argued back in the 1980s that those who supported a boycott of apartheid South Africa must have been secretly anti-white or anti-Christian because they did not equally prioritise a boycott of Israel?

ACLU sues US over separation of mother, child seeking asylumResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018American Civil Liberties Union accused the U.S. government of unlawfully separating a Congolese woman and her 7-year-old daughter by holding them in different immigration facilities 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) appart.

Afghanistan is Collapsing. Get Out: Now!Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the disastrous results of US and NATO intervention in Afghanistan, a conflict which has little to do with eliminating international terrorism.

Africa: New evidence of ongoing corporate lootingResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A World Bank report indicates a massive depletion of Africa's natural wealth by transnational corporations (TNC). There are two ways to address TNC capture of African wealth: bottom-up through direct action that blocks extraction, or top-down through significant reform.

Africa's whistleblowers'All I did was tell the truth'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In Africa, those who denounce corruption face hardship and physical danger even when theres a legal framework that should protect and guarantee them a fair hearing.

African Americans and Immigrant WorkersResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Malik discusses job competition and tensions between Afrcian Americans and Hispanic workers, more specifically between African Amercians and undocumented workers. He illustrates this through the example of a conflict in a Chicago bakery.

After 10 years, Hassan Diab is finally freeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Hassan Diab is freed by French authorities after what was deemed a bungled case and rush to judgment, one which zeroed in on Diab with unjust finger-pointing from B'nai Brith.

After the Grenfell Tower FireResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the grave injustice surrounding the Grenfell Tower fire, from the way residents were treated before and after the disaster and the austerity measures that exacerbated it - such as cuts to fire departments.

Ahed Tamimi Offers Israelis a Lesson Worthy of GandhiResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi may not be what Israelis had in mind when, over many years, they criticised Palestinians for not producing a Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela.Eventually, colonised peoples bring to the fore a figure best suited to challenge the rotten values at the core of the society oppressing them. Ahed is well qualified for the task.

Air pollution now 'largest health crisis'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The WHO estimates that seven million premature deaths are linked to air pollution every year, of which nearly 600,000 are children who are uniquely vulnerable.

Alberta has only itself to blame for bitumen problemsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The article explains why Alberta has primarily itself to blame for the low price of its bitumen, a situation built on years of mismanagement in government and poor industry advice.

Alberta's Problem Isn't Pipelines; It's Bad Policy DecisionsBitumen prices are low because the province has ignored at least a decade of warnings.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A 2007 Alberta government report indicates that the provincial government has been aware for more than a decade that its oilsands policies were setting the stage for today's price crisis.

"Alexa, Drop a Bomb": Amazon Wants in on US WarfareResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at US comapany Amazon and its involvement with the US military in creating an artificial 'brain' called JEDI. It demonstrates a new level of US determination for global domination, and would represent the creation of a weapon that would dramatically up the level of global military rivalry and ensure more human conflict.

The Algiers Accords: Decades of Violations and SilenceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018This week marks the 37th anniversary of a pledge made by the United States in 1981:The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Irans internal affairs.This week also marks 37 continuous years of the United States failing to uphold its pledge: the 1981 Algiers Accords.

All Fire and Fury in UkraineResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Using Oliver Stone's 'portentious' documentary film 'Ukraine on Fire' as a basis for discussion, the article looks beyond the mainstream media and public discourse on the events and developments in the country which ultimately framed the public's view of the situation.

All You Fascists Bound to LoseResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at Shane Burley's new book "Fascism Today: What It is and How to End It", which examines the current fascist movement and the opposition to it in the United States.

Am I a bad feminist?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. Nor do I believe that women are children, incapable of agency or of making moral decisions.

Amazon's Initiative: Digital Assistants, Home Surveillance and DataResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at technological developments such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, which are less innovations than intrusive tools utilized by big data companies to mine personal information and condition human approaches to the way information is shared.

American Exceptionalism: The Naked TruthResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A large number of Americans hold a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the US does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well. American leaders may make mistakes, they may blunder, they may lie, they may even on many occasions cause more harm than good, but they do mean well. Their intentions are always honorable, even noble. Of that the great majority of Americans are certain.And Americans genuinely wonder why the rest of the world cant see how benevolent and self-sacrificing America has been. Even many people who take part in the anti-war movement have a hard time shaking off some of this mindset; they march to spur America -- the America they love and worship and trust -- they march to spur this noble America back onto its path of goodness.

America's Troll Farm MediaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the American mainstream media, which is in a constant search of sensation, scandal, gossip, and above all -- profit.

Amnesty International: Trumpeting for War AgainResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018One would expect a human rights organisation to be intrinsically opposed to war, but AI is a cheerleader of so-called humanitarian intervention, and even "humanitarian bombing".

Anarchism and KavanaughResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Richman argues that without the current State, but rather with an Anarchistic one, the U.S. public would have been spared the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination episode.

Anti-BDS bills expected to feature prominently at AIPACAnnual meeting to push for measures that counter boycott Israel campaign as rights groups call bills 'unconstitutional'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018At the annual meeting of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), the lobbying group's agenda is set to propose measures to counter the growing campaign to boycott Israel and its West Bank settlements. At the centre of discussion are anti-bocott bills, described by critics as laws designed to curb the not-for-profit Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement- a human rights movement that supports Palestinian rights.

The anti-semitism paradox damaging LabourResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the damaging effect of anti-semitism for the political left, which is being exploited in a tactic to stifle class solidarity and subvert a genuinely progressive Labour leadership.

Apple and the Guardian: Partners in a Death SpiralResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018This report on Apple CEO Tim Cook's visit to a UK school to promote the company's new coding curriculum for schoolchildren could hardly be a better illustration of the way the Guardian newspaper serves as a key propagandist for aggressive global corporate capitalism, helping to create for it a façade of humanitarianism.

Archive That, Comrade!Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of RemembranceResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2018Archive That, Comrade! explores issues of archival theory and practice that arise for any project aspiring to provide an open-access platform for political dialogue and democratic debate.

Argentine Newspapers Recuperated by Workers' CooperativesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018An economic recession in Argentina that culminated in intense protests and the resignation of then-president Fernando de la Rua, also fostered the phenomenon of companies being recuperated by its workers as a cooperatives. In the last two years the majority of companies recuperated have been media outlets, which opens up new possibilities for journalism in the country.

The Atomized and Siloed U.S. LeftResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018We're increasingly siloed as organizers and protesters. The environment literally decays as we watch, and the Trump administration is hard at work dismantling what environmental regulations there are.

The Authoritarians Who Silence Syria QuestionsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the unchallenged western media narrative on Syria and notably recent commentary by Brian Whitaker, the Guardian's former Middle East editor, who is opposed to experts in the study of propaganda setting up a panel - the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media - which aims to "provide a source of reliable, informed and timely analysis for journalists, publics and policymakers" on Syria.

Bangladesh: Challenge of the Students Uprising - Its historical backgroundResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The students movement that erupted on 29 July following the death of two students in a tragic road accident in Dhaka spread to almost all the major cities of the country. Thousands of outraged school and college students laid siege to the streets of the capital Dhaka for a week demanding road safety across the country.

Banned in PakistanResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Pakistan's decision to censor 'blasphemous' websites provides a new perspective on the attitudes of many Western liberals towards Charlie Hebdo.

Barbara Ehrenreich Isn't Afraid to DieResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, The Certainty of Dying, and Our Illusion of Control", where she questions current cultural practices, our sense of 'self', and advocates for a broader acceptance of death's inevitability.

Barcelona's Experiment in Radical Democracy Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Issues that Barcelona en Comu is tackling come up against limitations set by Catalan and Spanish law. The city lacks authority to regulate housing, although the city has created new affordable housing, and has successfully limited the reach of Airbnb.

BDS Versus Settler-ColonialismBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Review of two books about pro-Palestinian political activism known as BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions.) Contains detailed discussion of history and current events covered in the books.

"Before all else a revolutionist": Marx and the Question of Strategy Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018 If we begin listening to the voices of those he conversed with, we can stop seeing Marx as the source of infinite quotes and begin to view him instead as a comrade on a common path  a path that he walked before us, always in conversation, and often in dispute, with many of his contemporaries.

Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood at all, and most people who have heard or read it somewhere breeze right past it, and fall back to the taxes-for-spending paradigm that is the sticky common wisdom of the left and right.

The Belem Ecosocialist Declaration: An historic documentResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In 2008 more than 400 activists from 37 countries endorsed this statement of ecosocialist principles and goals. Today the Belem Ecosocialist Declaration remains an important consensus statement of ecosocialist principles and goals.

The birth of the Cuban polyclinicResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018During the 1960s, Cuban medicine experienced changes as tumultuous as the civil rights and antiwar protests in the United States. While activists, workers, and students in western Europe and the United States confronted existing institutions of capitalism and imperialism, Cuba faced the even greater challenge of building a new society.

Black Politics After 2016Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A article on the significance of race in American politics, particularly since the 2016 election, and the symbiotic relation between antiracist politics and Democratic neoliberalism.

Blacking Out the Yellow Vests on Cable News: Corporate Media Doing its JobResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018France is experiencing a left-leaning popular and working-class uprising consistent with the French revolutionary tradition of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity", yet the majorty of Western media have given very little investigation or serious attention to the momentous events.

Brazil's Largest Newspaper Quits Facebook, Accuses it of Harboring 'Fake News'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The Brazilian media conglomerate Folha de S. Paulo, made the decision to rebel against Facebook by ceasing to publish content, saying the decision stems primarily from Facebook's recent change on users' news feed which aims to reduce the amount of content and favour posts by friends and family. The paper says Facebook is effectively banning professional journalism from its pages in favour of personal content and 'Fake News'.

Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court, and the End of Legal NeutralityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings destroyed any surviving myth of legal neutrality. Shultz explains why this may be a good thing, because it is time to recognize that the Supreme Court and its Justices are not politically neutral and that neither should they be.

A Brief History of American TortureResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The recent appointment of Gina Haspel as Head of the CIA reopens a dark chapter in US history -- the "enhanced interrogation", or torture of men, women and children. It also emphasizes the fact that no American officials who sanctioned, devised, supervised or implemented torture have ever been brought to justice for these crimes against humanity.

The Business of Bullshit Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Bullshit business is about the meaningless language conjured up in schools, in banks, in consultancy firms, in politics, in the media and, of course, in thousands of business schools releasing MBA-certificated managers who are then spreading the meaningless managerial buzz-word language of bullshit business around the world. Bullshit business can indeed take over organizations crowding out their core purpose  profit-maximization.

The Button, the Wall and the Myth of NationsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018North Korean sanctions, the border wall with Mexico, and the "toxic" role of nationalism with regards to international relations and domestically in the US are discussed.

Buy Banned BooksResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The article takes a look at 'banned books' in the social media era, where the 'imagination police' dominate and a form of 'fictional aparteid' is taking place, and moreover why we have a duty to buy them.

Call-Out Culture Is a Toxic Garbage Dumpster Fire of TrashResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the "Call-out" culture where individuals who express opinions are quickly reprimanded online with derogatory labels; a mass media social comdemnation often without any sort of due process, which ultimately spreads a fear to engage in controversy or voice opinions that are even slightly outside the tide of contemporary thinking.

Can a Minority Overthrow the Majority?Book ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Feeley reviews Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Rights Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean.

Can a minority rule a majority in perpetuity?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A review of "Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?" by Josh Ruebner. Subjects include the question of one or two states, and whether Israel should be considered democratic or an apartheid state are among numerous topics addressed in the book.

Canada's Deadly Diplomacy and the Plight of Political Prisoners in HondurasResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the political crisis in Honduras since the Nov. 26 election, which has led to brutal and deadly government crack-downs by military police and other state forces of Honduras. Described as state-led terrorism, it is being tacitly supported by funding from Canadian taxpayers.

Canada's Military shapes Coverage of DeploymentsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the Canadian military's influence over news coverage. The article outlines the great lengths the military goes to shape information covering its missions, including the recent deployment to Mali.

Carrying capacity, technology, and ecomodernist confusionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Biologist Michael Frieman responds to an article titled "The Earth's Carrying Capacity for Human Life Is Not Fixed" by Ted Nordhaus, an executive director of the Breakthrough Institute and strong proponent of ecomodernism. Friedman counters the idea that capitalist technology is capable of solving virtually any of the environmental problems generated by humankind while still making eternal capitalist growth possible- a viewpoint based on assumptions that are fraught with problems.

The Case that Dare Not Speak Its Name: the Conviction of Cardinal PellResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Cardinal Pell, a high-ranking official of the Catholic Church and financial grand wizard of the Vatican, was found guilty on December 11, 2018 of historical child sexual abuses pertaining to two choir boys from the 1990s. But details remain sketchy.

CEMB march at Pride 2018 in London: A Victory against IslamismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain marched in Pride in London on 7 July for LGBT rights in countries under Islamic rule; in 15 states or territories, homosexuality is punishable by death. The march was a victory against Islamist forces in Britain like Mend and East London Mosque that tried and failed to stop CEMB from marching with accusations of 'Islamophobia' aimed at imposing de facto blasphemy and apostasy laws.

Cesspools, Sewage, and Social MurderEnvironmental Crisis and Metabolic Rift in Nineteenth-Century LondonResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Karl Marx's analysis of changes in British agriculture in the nineteenth-century provides the theoretical starting point for what is now known as 'metabolic rift theory'. This article considers an aspect of the theory that has not been much discussed in modern ecosocialist analysis- the environmental crisis that the accumulation of human excrement caused in urban areas, notably in London.

Challenging Capitalism through Workers ControlResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018From the upheavals of the early 20th century to the neo-liberal re-structurings of the late 20th century emerges the common feature of 'worker's control' -- a movement to protect jobs and communities.

Champions Of Democracy - From Fake News To Imposed InsanityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018While social media is largely blamed for the proliferation of 'fake news', it is through social media where the corporate media commentariat are exposed. Readers are now at last able to see some rational dissent, this is the up-side to social media that the 'mainstream' cannot even discuss.

Chasing Shadows: Socialism Won't Go Away Because It is Capitalism's AntithesisResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The abstract forces of capitalism's dynamism create the conditions for ever more creative and novel ways to profit, which is why the Golden Age of postwar capitalism-which had a mix of capitalist and socialist economic features-evolved into the neoliberal period after the external oil shocks of 1973 and 1979. Those conditions created a transitional context to shift out of a regulated state-interventionist capitalism into the aggressive, free-market neoliberal variety lasting more than 30 years, leading us to the precipice of the present.

'City of Surveillance': Google-backed smart city sounds like a dystopian nightmareResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018 A Google-backed project to build the interconnected, data-driven city of the future sounds like all George Orwells nightmares come true, and is now in the spotlight after a privacy expert resigned from the project in protest. Torontos Waterfront district used to be an industrial wasteland, but Sidewalk Labs  a sister company of Google  wants to turn that wasteland into a prototype city of the future, where data helps planners micromanage every aspect of urban life.

Clarion Alley Confronts a Lack of ConcernResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Clarion Alley's thought-provoking, provocative, clever and often political art was created by those determined to leave a record of their existence and experience and to give voice to marginalized and disenfranchised communities.

Claude McKay's Lost NovelReview of Amiable with Big Teeth; Against the Current vol. 192Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Review of Amiable with Big Teeth, a novel by the African-American revolutionary activist and writer Claude McKay.

Climate Change Drives Up Rural Poverty in Latin AmericaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In Latin America and the Caribbean region's first meeting of Week of Agriculture and Food, held in November 2018, more than 1,000 officials and experts agreed that the fall in agricultural yields and increasing migration from the countryside are consequences of global warming.

Climate Jobs for All Building Block for the Green New DealResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018This article discusses the federal jobs guarantee (JG) concept which is also known as "jobs for all." The advocates of JG generally include climate protection as one of many types of work beneficial to the public that might be included in a jobs guarantee program.

Climate Jobs for AllBuilding Block for the Green New DealResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A federal climate jobs guarantee (CJG) is a proposed program similar to the New Deal's WPA that would prioritize jobs that protect and improve the environment. Polls show that the program has popular support and could be a major political force in 2020.

Climate justice and migration in the mediaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A climate justice narrative is needed to communicate and enhance public understanding of migration induced by climate change. Key components must include human rights protection, greater equity in burdens sharing, and participation in decision-making processes.

Climate litigation loomsInterviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Nick Breeze interviews Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), who explains why we must stay below 1.5C, and why loss and damage compensation, and litigation, are the next big agenda items at COP24.

Climate-Driven 'Bugpocalypse'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018An alarming report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that in addition to annihilating hundreds of mammal species, the climate crisis has also sparked a global "bugpocalypse" that will only continue to accelerate in the absence of action to stop planetary warming.

Cold as IceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018An excerpt from a letter written in 1897 to the editor of the British newspaper the 'Daily Chronicle'. The letter is included in "The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde", published by Harvard University Press. The letter is an appeal and commentary on the harsh and cruel treatment of children being held in English prisons.

The Collaboration TrapResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Most of environmental/conservation groups in the West are participants in various public land collaboratives.Most participating collaborative members are made up of people who generally believe in exploiting natural landscapes for human benefit. As a generalization, there is overwhelming representation in such collaboratives by people who speak for the resource extraction industry or their sympathizers like rural county commissioners, ORV enthusiasts, and so forth.

Communism and Self-ManagementResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at workers' self-management in past regimes and their relevance to current debates.

Community forest management against illegal timber loggingIndigenous communities comply with strict rules to ensure the regeneration of the forest and protect water sources.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Guatemala is hit hard by mudslides caused by deforestation. Government-led initiatives created in consultation with Indigenous communities have been successful in preserving forests and promotiing sustainability.

Comrade BernardResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A review of Bernard Goldstein's "Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland", a firsthand account of the struggles of the Jewish working class in Poland between the two World Wars.

Confronting Germany's New Fascists in BerlinResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the rise of facism in Germany with the recent winning of seats, now with 92 representatives in the national Bundestag, by the five-year-old Alternative for Germany (AfD). This new found platform provides the party with a voice in every debate and the first speakers after those of the government.

Confronting the Right: An IntroductionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018An overview of issues related to confronting the right, including questions surrounding the labelling of free speech as hate speech.

A conversation with film historian Max AlvarezHow the #MeToo campaign echoes the McCarthyite witch hunt of the 1940s and 1950sResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Clearly, this is not as organized a political campaign as the one that took place in the 1940s and 1950s, but the climate is chillingly similar in terms of the massive capitulation and conformity in the entertainment industry.

Cooperative farming is the only solution to the present agriculture crisisResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the agricultural crisis in India and the economic realities the country faces in a market tilted in favour of America and Europe. Solutions include government policy based on science in the use of land and water, less reliance on pesticides and fertilizers, and a move towards cooperative farming.

Corbyn's Labour Party is Being Made to Fail - By DesignResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The embattled Labour party is reportedly soon to adopt the four additional working "examples" of anti-semitism drafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The full adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism will be a victory for Israel and its apologists in Britain, who who have been seeking to curb all meaningful criticism of Israel.

Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with CashResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Consumer freedom and privacy are examined as coercive commercialism quickly moves toward a cashless economy, when all consumers are forced into corporate payment systems from credit/debit cards, mobile phones and perhaps even through facial recognition technology.

Corporate Media: the Enemy of the PeopleResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018We on the Left don't need to reflexively and absurdly jump to the defense of imperial criminals at the instigation of that (well, yes) "enemy of the people" the U.S. corporate and so-called mainstream war, news, and entertainment media.

The corporate media's world of illusionsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In fact, the Great Western Narrative has been developed and refined over centuries to preserve a tiny elites privileges and expand its power. The role of journalists like me was to keep feeding these illusions to readers so they would remain fearful, passive and deferential to this elite. It is not that journalists lie  or at least, not most of them  it is that they are as deeply wedded to the Great Western Narrative as everyone else.

The Counterinsurgency Paradigm: How U.S. Politics Have Become ParamilitarizedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Bernard Harcourt argues in his recent book "The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens" that the same counterinsurgency paradigm of warfare used against post-9/11 enemies has now come to the US as the effective governing strategy.

The Crisis in Corbyn's Labour Party is Over Israel, Not Anti-SemitismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018If there is indeed an anti-semitism problem in the UK's Labour party, it is not in the places where the British corporate media have been directing our attention. What can be said with even more certainty is that there is rampant hatred expressed towards Jews in the same British media that is currently decrying the supposed anti-semitism of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The Crisis of Social Democracy: From Norway to EuropeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018With social democratic parties in Europe suffering poor election results and significant setbacks, this article puts the current crisis in historical context, and how resolution and success will depend on more radical solutions.

Crisis of the State, Crisis of the LeftArticulating Socialism After the Anarchist MomentResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018'Augmenting the left' -- that is, finding ways to build new organizational alliances, expand practices of resistance, and culturally envision and collectively build toward a better world -- is not just a worthwhile project, but also an essential one. Human survival may depend upon it. In this regard, it must be recognized that there is also a crisis of the various post-Marxisms, especially to the extent that they tried to replace class as the central structural pivot around which different forms of oppression and counter-hegemonic emancipatory struggles condense.

Crucifying Julian AssangeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Juilien Assange, who exposed the dark machinations and crimes of the US government, is now under threat of being expelled from the Equadorian Embassy. The article looks at what is happening to Assange and why the the silence over his plight is a betrayal by the press.

Current Developments in IranResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018An update on the new wave of demonstrations that started December 28, 2017 in Mashhad, the second-largest city in Iran, and why dissent is different from that of 2009.

The Curse of Energy EfficiencyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The more 'efficient' our technology, the more resources we consume in a downward spiral of catastrophe.

Cursed FieldsWhat the tundra has in store for Russia's reindeer herdersResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Noah Sneider visits the Yamal Peninsula in Russia where an outbreak of anthrax is killing herds of reindeer and engdangering the lives of the local people. Rising temperatures and a particularly hot summer have led scientists to conclude that climate change is the most credible explanation for its deadly return.

The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk AssessmentResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Various companies and government agencies aim to use technology that measures biological features such as facial expressions or tone of voice to assess individuals, such as refugee claimants or potential employees, for 'risk'. Many critics say the science behind this is dubious and can hide cultural bias under a blanket of objectivity.

The deadly flood in Kerala may be only a gentle warningResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Arundhati Roy comments on the disasterous flooding in the Indian state of Kerala. While acknowleding various forces lead to the disaster, Roy also places blame on government mismanagement and ignoring the needs of the state's most disadvanted people.

The Death of a Once Great CityThe fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluenceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Kevin Baker takes a close look at the changes to his home city of New York over the past forty years. He notes that while some of the more undesirable aspects of New York in the 1970's have improved, such as crime, dirt, garbage- the new and more gentrified city masks significant problems, the most notable being a growing housing crisis.

De-Briefing Academics: Unpaid Intelligence InformantsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Many academics frequently engage in what government officials dub 'de-briefing'! Academics meet and discuss their field-work, data collection, research finding, observations and personal contacts over lunch at the Embassy with US government officials or in Washington with State Department officials.

Defending Afrin means defending the women's revolutionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Since January 20, 2018 the Turkish army has been attacking the Kurdish region of Afrin in the Democratic Federation of North Syria; among the casualties are women, children and many refugees. In this message to the world a confederation of women's organisatons in Afrin call upon all women worldwide to join their struggle.

Defending 'Our Democracy'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Despite the onsought of attacks on American democracy, groups like the teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky and the Parkland surviors through their activism are defending America's democracy.

The Defiance that Launched Gaza's Flaming Kites Cannot be ExtinguishedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Now Israel is facing a new and apparently even tougher challenge: how to stop Palestinian resistance from Gaza using flaming kites, which have set fire to lands close by in Israel. F-16 fighter jets are equipped to take on many foes but not the humble kite.

Defining Israel as a "Jewish State"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The definition of what is a "Jewish State" and "what is a Jew" is a fundamental part of this debate. The "Jewish State" is like no other. It uses a concept of Jewish nationality which is like no other definition of nationality. It is the Jewish character of the State that is given preference to all other considerations and gives superior rights to Jews over the non-Jewish population in Israel.

Demand for atheism rises in countries under Islamic ruleResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The rise of atheism in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia is something we have been speaking about for some time now. The Iranian Baztab Now website warned of a tsunami of atheism amongst Iranian youth. The #ExMuslimBecause hashtag initiated by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain became viral overnight with over 120,000 Tweets from 65 countries.

Democracy and Ecological CrisisResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In view of the global ecological problems which have arisen from aggressive market driven economies, the author examines what democracy and socialism really mean, and what a more environmentally responsible Post-Capitalism society might look like.

Despite Gaza Massacre, Israel Remains Immune From CriticismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Imagine for a moment that it was not the two million Palestinian in Gaza, who are mostly refugees from 1948, but the six million Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan who had staged a march to return to the homes that they have lost in Syria since 2011. Suppose that, as they approach the Syrian border, they were fired on by the Syrian army and hundreds of them were killed or injured. The international outcry against the murderous Syrian regime in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin would have echoed around the world.

Disabled People in UK Lead Fight Against AusterityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In July 20,2018, John Clarke represented the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) at the International Deaf and Disabled Peoples Solidarity Summit, in Stratford, east London that had been convened by one of our key allies in the UK, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC). This powerful gathering was an important moment in the building of a resistance by disabled people as part of a broader international struggle against the forces of neoliberal austerity.

Diverting Class War Into Generational War, AgainResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Dean Baker provieds a counter argument to a New York Times article titled "65 or Older? Here's What We Owe Our Kids" by Glenn Kramon, which directs blame at Social Security and Medicare for the current struggles of the younger generation.

Does the Bitcoin frenzy make any sense at all?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The author explains how the strange story of a "crypto-currency" reveals the underlying irrationality of a system that is designed to work for the rich only.

Don't Fall for the Chemical Weapons Convention JustificationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the interventionalist arguments in support of Western air and missile attacks in Syria, and the false claim that the attack was justified under international law because it was a response to the use of banned chemical weapons.

The Doomsday Machine and Nuclear Winter Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The portion of an interview with Daniel Ellsberg, an American activist and former United States military analyst, who comments on thermonuclear war and its outcome.

Doubts about 'Novichoks'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Briefing notes developed from ongoing research and investigation into the use of chemical and biological weapons during the 2011-present war in Syria conducted by members of the "Working Group on Syria, Media and Propaganda".

Drinking PoblemsA Kansas town confronts a tap-water crisisResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the health crisis in Pretty Prairie, Kansas, where Nitrate from farms has polluted the water supply for three decades. Elizabeth Royte takes a look at the town's history and social climate in order to understand why the problem was left for so long.

Dunlop Factory (South Africa): The workers who won't snitch Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Metalworker union Numsa files legal arguments in the Constitutional Court on on behalf of Dunlop factory workers from Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, after workers were dismissed because they did not snitch on fellow workers during a protected strike.

The Economics Behind the Skripal PoisoningResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The question is why are they doing this with Russia? Why are they imposing sanctions and mounting a great publicity campaign?

Ecuadorean Villagers May Still Triumph Over ChevronResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Michael Krauss, a lawyer who teaches "ethics" at a law school named after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, recently posted a blog on the Forbes website entitled "The Ecuador Saga Continues: Steven Donziger now owes Chevron more than $800,000" (Forbes 3/14/2018). Kraus says that Chevron has basically triumphed over evil...

Eight Things I learned About Palestine While Touring Eight Western NationsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The main theme of all my talks in various cultural, academic and media platforms was the pressing need to refocus the discussion on Palestine on the struggle, aspirations and history of the Palestinian people. But, interacting with hundreds of people and being exposed to multiple media environments in both mainstream and alternative media, I also learned much about the changing political mood on Palestine in the western world.

Empty SuitsDefamation law and the price of dissentResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at lawsuits filed by companies that are intended to censor, intimidate, and silence dissenters by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense- known as SLAPP or strategic lawsuits against public participation.

The End of "The Great War"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A thorough look at the ending of World War I, focusing especially on class conflict.

The End of Policing & Police: A Field GuideResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2018A Field Guide to the Police is a study of the indirect and taken-for granted language of policing, a language we're all forced to speak when we talk about law enforcement. The book refuses to see the world as police do, instead it contends that when we talk about police and police reform, we speak the language of police legitimation through the art of euphemism. State sexual assault becomes "body-cavity search," and ruthless beatings become "plain compliance." Like any other field guide, it reveals a world that is hidden in plain view. In entries like "Police dog," "Stop and frisk," "Rough ride," and scores more, the authors show how "copspeak" obscures the true meaning and history of policing. This book will arm activists on the streets--as well as anyone with an open mind--on one of the key issues of our time: police violence. The book argues that a redefined language of policing might help us chart a future free of police and police violence.

Endless War, Swirling ChaosResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The editors of Against the Current comment on current American global affairs, including the Singapore Summit, Iran and Palestine as well as the need for a new Anti-War movement.

Engineering the climate could cost us the earthResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Political scientist Gareth Dale takes a look at Geoengineering as a "political technology" and institutional apparatus that is preventing effective climate action, and actually serves to reduce the sense of urgency needed for genuine and more effective structural change.

Eric Hobsbawms historiesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Eric Hobsbawm was the author of, among many other works, a classic quartet on modern world history, The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire and Age of Extremes. Hobsbawm was widely respected as one of the greatest historians of the left and one of the greatest historians of the 20th century more generally.

Ethics and Whistleblowing for Engineers Affects Us AllResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Some engineering professors worry that their students' busy course schedules prevents them from adequately exploring the liberal arts. Without exposure to the liberal arts, engineering students will lack the broad context that will help them approach their work as a profession, not just a trade.

Europe's Political Turmoil (Part I)Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Far-right parties are gaining ground all over Europe scapegoating immigrants and people of colour. The radical left has not come up with a competitive strategy for winning people over.

European Communist Parties and '68Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018One effect of the May 1968 uprisings was to highlight and/or hasten the split between communist parties and social movements in Europe.

Ex-Muslims: A community in protest Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018I see ex-Muslims as a community in protest: insisting on freedom from religion, and freedom of conscience. For the right to apostasy and blasphemy, without fear. Like the LGBT, anti-slavery, anti-colonialist, anti-apartheid, suffragette or civil rights movements, its a movement which insists upon our common humanity and equality  not upon difference or superiority. Its a movement of people who refuse to live in fear and in the shadows, and who are speaking out for social change in unprecedented ways.

Expansion of monocultures expels peasants from their lands Repression intensifies against peasant leaders opposed to land grabs, evictions and the pollution of water sources.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In Guatemala a wave of violence at the hands of large agriculture corporations has been driving Indigenous people and peasants off their land.

Exploitation, Alienation and OppressionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Bakan discusses the varations of Marxism and proports that the best of the Marxist tradition resists orthodoxy. She considers the complexity and variation in the core concepts in Marx's work regarding inequality.

Exposing Canary MissionA Resource for College and University LeadersResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A report on Canary Mission, a secretive and non-academic political organization that uses their website to engage in defamatory attacks against college students, academics and others who report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and advocate for Palestinian rights.

The Face Off: Law Enforcement Use of Face Recognition TechnologyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Face recognition is poised to become one of the most pervasive surveillance technologies, and law enforcement's use of it is increasing rapidly. However, the adoption of face recognition technologies like these is occurring without meaningful oversight, without proper accuracy testing of the systems as they are actually used in the field, and without the enactment of legal protections to prevent internal and external misuse.

Facebook: A Cooperative TransformationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Facebook represents a standard for a global model of concentration of wealth and power in the 21st century, joined by companies like Google, Amazon, and Uber. Entrepreneurs with computer skills and good or lucky timing have privatized and enclosed the global information commons and have enriched themselves by providing services for free or for reduced prices to the billions.

Facebook and the Rise of Anti-Social MediaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018For those who haven't thought about it, the internet is insidious because of the very capacity that Cambridge Analytica claims to be able to exploit: customization. Users have limited ability to confirm the authenticity of anything they see, read or hear on it. Print editions can be compared and contrasted-- technology limits print media to large-scale deceptions. With the capacity to create entire realms of deception -- identities, content, web pages and entire online publications, trust is made a function of gullibility.

Facing the left-wing challenge in the European Union - Ten proposalsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The left could bring radical change if they could prove themselves capable to people in the Eurozone dissatisfied with austerity measures. Here are ten proposals for social mobilization and actions to be taken by any government that is truly operating in the interests of the people.

Fake News and the Gatekeepers of TruthResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at misinformation or 'fake news' and how it has changed from the past; while only governments and prominent figures could once manipulate public opinion, today it is anyone with online access.

Fascist Attack in ChileResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018An open letter calling for international solidarity in the aftermath of an attack on the March for the Right to Free, Legal Abortion on Demand in Santiago, Chile where three women were stabbed.

Fathi Harb burnt himself to death in Gaza: Will the world notice?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Self-immolation is more than suicide. That can be done quietly, out of sight, less gruesomely. In fact, figures suggest that suicide rates in Gaza have rocketed in recent years. But public self-immolation is associated with protest.

A Faustian Bargain with the Climate CrisisResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Take as our inspiration the temptations of capitalist individualism set before us, we make the exact same bargain. The difference in this case however is that we know the disaster is coming; we don't even need to worry about what our spidey senses say, 97% of all climate scientists agree that the capitalist mentality that sees the world as an infinite resource and infinite garbage dump is warming the atmosphere. We have even less excuse.

The FBI's Maoist FactionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The following is based on research by Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher for their book, A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration from the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union - 1962-1974, (London: Repeater Books, 2018).

FC St. Pauli: Antifascist, AntiracistResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Haasen describes the political activism of FC St. Pauli footbal team and its supporters in Hamburg, Germany. Having once supported the Nazi Regime, this club has radiically changed it stance to become a vocal supporter of antiracism, antifascism and humanitarian efforts.

15 Actions That Can Shut Down Trump's Assault on Immigrant FamiliesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A list of recommended actions that can be taken against the Trump Administration's policy toward immigrant families, some of which include: Expose for-profit detention corporations; Target mayor's offices, state capitals, and governor's mansions; Practice non-violence, as well as using the media to your advantage.

Finding the truth amid Israel's liesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The famous  and by now overused  expression that history is written by the victors can be countered in many ways. One way is by unpacking the victors publications in order to expose the lies, fabrications and misrepresentations, as well as their less conscious actions. A rereading of these open sources about the Nakba, mostly written by Israelis themselves, unlocks fresh historiographical perspectives on the big picture of that period  while declassified documents allow us to see that picture in a higher resolution. This reprise could have been done at any moment between 1948 and today  as long as historians were willing to employ the critical lens needed for such an examination. Rereading these open sources, especially in tandem with the numerous oral histories of the Nakba, reveals the barbarism and dehumanization that accompanied the catastrophe. The barbarism is common to settler communities in the formative years of their colonization projects and can sometimes be obscured by the dry and evasive language of military and political documents.

Fisk Puts to Test the Free-Press Myth in DoumaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Veteran Middle East corrrespondent Robert Fisk was the first western correspondent to arrive in Douma following the US, UK and French attacks on Syria. Based on first hand interviews Fisk's account is clearly honest about what he reported and certainly plausible, yet respected British newspapers like the Guardian gave his reports a cursory if not hostile treatment.

A Flag for Trump's AmericaThe power of strengthResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the Blue Lives Matter slogan and flag, which became a symbol for the U.S. police counter-movement advocating that those who are prosecuted and convicted of killing law enforcement officers should be sentenced under hate crime statutes. It was started in response to Black Lives Matter.

Florida Students Confront SpencerResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Aliya recounts her experience protesting the Richard Spencer event at the University of Florida.

For an international coalition to fight Internet censorshipResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In this open letter from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the threat and consequences of internet censorship and reduction in access to information is highlighted.

For Campus Free SpeechResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Bose describes the right-wing incursion on universities and his troubled feelings about the climate of intellectual fear among some on the campus left. He elaborates on this by discussing the demands for speaking engagements for right-wing pundits to be cancelled.

Force of Evil: Abraham Polonsky and Anti-Capitalist NoirResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Policy lies at the heart of Abraham Polonskys Force of Evil, arguably the most anti-capitalist film ever to emerge from Hollywood. Released 70 years ago to puzzled critics and an indifferent public, over time it would achieve cult status among devotees of film noir while offering a tantalizing glimpse of what might have been accomplished by Polonsky and other members of the Hollywood Left had the blacklist not intervened.

'The Forced Displacement of Palestinians Never Truly EndedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018As Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary, a child and grandchild of exiled Palestinian reflects on the Nakba, where 750,000 were driven from their homes or fled in terror following massacres of Palestinian civilians by Jewish militias.

Foreign Interventions in Revolutionary RussiaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018All over Europe, the First World War had brought about a potentially revolutionary situation as early as 1917. In countries where the authorities continued to represent the traditional elite, exactly as had been the case in 1914, they aimed to prevent the realization of this potential by means of repression, concessions, or both.

Foreign Policy for Sale: Greece's Dangerous Alliance with IsraelResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018For a brief historical moment, Alexis Tsipras and his political party, Syriza, ignited hope that Greece could resurrect a long-dormant Leftist tide in Europe. A new Greece was being born out of the pangs of pain of economic austerity, imposed by the European Union and its overpowering economic institutions  a troika so ruthless, it cared little while the Greek economy collapsed and millions of people experienced the bitterness of poverty, unemployment and despair.

A 14-Year-Old Girl Forced Alone and at Night Into the Gaza Cage. Another Routine Mishap for Israel's OccupationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018How did a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who has never set foot in the open-air prison of Gaza find herself being dumped there by Israeli officials  alone, at night and without her parents being informed?The terrifying ordeal  a child realising she had not been taken home but discarded in a place where she knew no one  is hard to contemplate for any parent.And yet for Israel's gargantuan bureaucratic structure that has ruled over Palestinians for five decades, this was just another routine error. One mishap among many that day.

Foxconn: The Myth and Reality of the Welfare QueenResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Social scientists who have studied the welfare system before and after the Clinton era welfare "reforms" have exposed the notion that women on public assistance were "welfare queens" as a myth.

Fragmented Power: Portugal in Revolution, 1974-1975Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In Portugal the underground Armed Forces Movement's long-planned coup d'etat to bring down the Estado Novo regime was a success; however it was relatively short-lived despite the modest intentions of its organizers. This article takes a look at the popular initiatives that brought Portugal to the brink of a socialist revolution and why it failed.

Free and Accessible Transit NowResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Transit is a critical issue for many people in Toronto, as in all major urban areas. More is at stake than reducing traffic congestion and gridlock. Free transit opens the door to a broader transformation of urban life and the current social system. Our 'Red-Green' vision is socialist, based on the working class, environmentally just, internationalist, and transformative.

#FreeSiwatu!Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Siwatu-Salama Ra, an activist, was arrested in Detriot for felonious assault despite the fact that Siwatu-Salama was acting to defend herself and her family.

From Catholicism and the working class to communism and MarxResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Garvey describes his childhood growing up in a Catholic community in New York and explains how Marx and Marxism were episodically present in the later periods of his life but first engagement with them was not nearly as deep as it needed to be. He asserts that in the 1960s Marx and Marxism that were on offer in the world of political practice were, more often than not, caricatures. What was needed in 1968 and beyond was not simply more Marx but a different Marx. At the end, he sketchs out some ideas of what a different Marx might have been and what difference it might have made.

From Moral Outrage to Moral Panic: the Limits of Public RageResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018There has been forceful break from the culture of silence that has long protected men from being held accountable for their misdeeds. While rage emerges against male sexual abuse, some progressive feminists have raised concerns that this movement may slip into 'moral panic' and a possible conservative, neo-puritan anti-sex campaign.

Fruits and perils of the 'bloc within': The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 3)Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The most advanced experience of Communist alliance with national revolutionists occurred in Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) prior to the Baku Congress. However, it was not mentioned at the congress, even though one of its architects  the Dutch Communist Maring (Henk Sneevliet)  was present in the hall. Maring had been a leader for many years of revolutionary socialist Dutch settlers in Indonesia, who had achieved the remarkable feat of transforming their group into one predominantly indigenous in leadership, membership, and programmatic orientation. The key to success had been a close alliance with a mass national-revolutionary organization of the type described by the Second Congress, called Sarekat Islam.

The future of the NakbaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018If the Nakbas most salient features are the theft of Palestinian land and the expulsion of the Palestinians from their land, and subjecting the lands that could not be stolen and the people who could not be expelled to systematic control and oppression, then, it would be most inaccurate to consider the Nakba as a discrete event that refers to the war of 1948 and its immediate aftermath. Rather, it should be historicized as a process which spanned the last 140 years, beginning with the arrival of the first Zionist conquerors to colonize the land in the early 1880s. In addition, Israeli leaders continue to regale their own people and the world with assurances that the Nakba is not just a past and present process of dispossessing the Palestinian people of their lands and expelling them, but rather one that must continue to preserve the future survival of Israel. The Nakba then turns out to be not just a past event and an ongoing process in the present, but a calamity that has a decidedly planned future ahead of it. If so, what might that future be?

Gaza: An Inquest into Its MartyrdomResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2018The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating operations against Gazas largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless. In the meantime, Israel has subjected Gaza to a merciless illegal blockade.What has befallen Gaza is a man-made humanitarian disaster.Based on scores of human rights reports, Norman G. Finkelstein's new book presents a meticulously researched inquest into Gazas martyrdom. He shows that although Israel has justified its assaults in the name of self-defense, in fact these actions constituted flagrant violations of international law.

Gaza medic killed by Israel as she rescued injuredResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Israeli occupation forces shot dead a volunteer medic and injured dozens of people as they continued their indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians taking part in Great March of Return protests in Gaza for the 10th consecutive Friday. Razan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar, 21, was helping treat and evacuate wounded protesters east of Khan Younis when she was fatally shot on Friday evening. She was about 100 meters away from the boundary fence with Israel at the moment she was shot and was wearing clothing clearly identifying her as a medic.

Gaza: Who or What Has a Right to Exist?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at Norman Finkelstein's book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom", which investigates the Israeli attacks on Gaza such as Operation Cast Lead (2008-09), the Mavi Marmara (2010), and Operation Protective Edge (2014).

Gazan Gandhis: Gaza Bleeds Alone as 'Liberals' and 'Progressives' Go Mute Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Tens of thousands of protesters, raising Palestinian flags continue to hold their massive rallies across the Gaza border. Despite the high death toll and the thousands maimed, they return everyday with the same commitment to popular resistance that is predicated on collective unity, beyond factionalism and politics.But why are they still being largely ignored? It is politically convenient to criticize Palestinians as a matter of course, and utterly inconvenient to credit them, even when they display such courage, prowess and commitment to peaceful change.

Gender, Race and Marx's WhiskersResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Roediger juxtaposes James and Marx quotations and discusses the iimplications for how Marxs limits and his forward motion regarding race and gender might be understood together.

The Geography of MarxismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018David Harvey is a geographer and a Marxist. A collection of his works titled The Ways of the World was recently published in paperback. A collection pulled from his writing and lectures, the works are insightful, both in their approach to the world and the manner in which he combines geography and Marxism.

Getting to Marxism in Wisconsin and IowaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Dave Ranney recounts his experiences during the 1960s which led him to accepting Marxism. He emphasizes his experinces in Southeast Asia during the 1960s which exposed covert Americian military action in the region. Other formative experiences include those as an university professor in Wisconsin and Iowa where he witnessed and joined campus movements.

Gideon Levy: A Voice of Sanity from IsraelResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In spite of a systemic policy of demonization, Israeli journalist and human rights activist Gideon Levy continues denouncing the Israeli government and the crimes against Palestinians.

The "Gilets Jaunes" Seen From My WorkplaceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Due to the insular and ambiguous nature of social media, the Yellow Vests movement may spark political unrest but probably won't lead to real social revolution.

GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of ChoiceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and have an ideological agenda. The narrative is that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies, including GM crops. But GM agriculture is not 'feeding the world', nor has it been designed to do so. The choice for farmers between a technology based on broken promises and conventional non-GMO agriculture is no choice at all.

Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for DronesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firestorm among employees of the technology giant when they learned of Google's involvement.

Google's 'Smart City of Surveillance' Faces New Resistance in TorontoResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A plan to develop 12 acres of the valuable waterfront just southeast of downtown Torontoby the government agency Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs, owned by Googles parent company Alphabet Inc. has sparked concerns about privacy and lack of public consultation. A recent slew of resignations from its board has made these concerns increasingly urgent and public.

Government Mass MurderResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018"This is not an assault." Twenty-five years ago, that was the lie blaring over government loudspeakers as the FBI and the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) carried out its plan to obliterate the Branch Davidians, an integrated group that formed as a breakaway from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Orchestrated and overseen at the highest levels of the Clinton administration, the 19 April 1993 assault outside Waco, Texas, engulfed the Branch Davidians Mount Carmel commune in an inferno that killed over 80 people, including some two dozen children.

The Great British Empire DebateResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Malik discusses the complex issues of British colonialism, its many painful legacies and how it should be dealt with in such fields as academia and politics.

Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on ChildrenResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A discussion of Israel's tactics in its campaign against Palestinians, which includes the use of deliberate provocation to incite retaliation, and the disturbing reality that results in large numbers of children's deaths.

Gun Control in Old East GermanyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In Communist-run East Germany weapons and ammunition were strictly controlled. Rifles, though privately-owned, were locked up at the hunting clubs, usually connected with the forest rangers' home and station.

Haiti: An Example of Fake News by OmissionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The main problem with the mainstream media today, as in the past, is not 'fake news' but what is left out of articles dealing with controversial issues.

Helping drought-stricken farmers requires recognising global warming and planning Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018All of NSW has now officially been declared to be in drought, and 57% of Queensland has officially entered its sixth year of the current drought (though there has been little real change from when 88% was declared to be in drought in March 2017).Droughts keep getting worse, and the changing climate means they will continue to do so.The Coalition's "solutions" start with denying that climate change is real.

Herbicides undermine antibiotics, threaten medical careResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A New Zealand study adds to the body of evidence that industrial herbicides, not intended to be antibiotics, can have profound effects on bacteria, with potentially negative implications for medicine's ability to treat infectious diseases.

Here's how we stopped a brutal, inhumane and barely legal charter flightResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Helen Brewer describes how she, and 14 other activists, broke into Stansted Airport on the 28th of March 2017, and blocked a mass deportation charter flight due to send 60 people to Nigeria and Ghana -- a forced removal which threatened to place migrants in extreme danger.

Here's what war with North Korea would look likeA full-blown war with North Korea wouldn't be as bad as you think. It would be much, much worseResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the chilling logistics and devastating loss of life a full-blown war between the USA and North Korea would cause.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Fictions and FactsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The New York Times reported that year, Many historians believe the bombings [of] Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, which together took the lives of more than 200,000 people, saved lives on balance, since an invasion of the islands would have led to far greater bloodshed. Many historians, perhaps; but not that many.

Honduras: U.S. Support for Repression & FraudResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The US has supported the illegitimate election in Honduras. The people continue to resist despite deaths, disappearances and incarcerations by the military.

How Apple is Paving the Way to a 'Cloud Dictatorship' in ChinaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Apple Inc. is set to hand over the operation of its iCloud data center in mainland China to a local corporation, but Apple has not explained the real issue. With the move a state-owned big data company controlled by the Chinese government will have access to all the data of its service users in China; this will allow the state apparatus to jump into the cloud and look into the data of Apple's Chinese users.

How can environmental activists use social media? Part 1Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Environmental activists and NGOs spend a considerable amount of time Facebook posting and Tweeting. But the best use of social networks is about what you want to achieve. Alessio Perrone spoke to some experts in the field and gives some tips about how to use platforms successfully to promote social change

How Canada could use the Saudi quarrel to help the Middle East - and itselfResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Saudi Arabia's overreaction to Canadian criticism on human rights provides an opportunity for Canada to rethink Middle East policy. Such a policy, based on universal human rights, would greatly benefit not just Saudi Arabians but those in the broader Middle East, and also Canada.

How the 'free' media dupe us on climate changeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Commentary on a segment of Al Jazeera's programme The Listening Post on why climate scepticism persists only in what it terms the "Anglosphere media", that is, those in the United States, UK, Australia and Canada.

How Labour's Campaigns Attempted to Make the Political Personal Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The basic techniques of convincing people on the doorstep are not different to those of convincing friends or workmates. However, election canvassers have typically gone door-to-door telling voters what the party's policies are. The British Labour Party's new approach, developed by Momentum, emphasized listening to people and identifying their key issues.

How Neoliberal Fundamentalism Helped Make Trump PresidentResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A common, headache-inducing media narrative has surfaced since the election in 'mainstream' liberal U.S. publications they can no longer trust, such as The Washington Post or New York Times: that the true decline of U.S. democracy, the true dominance of U.S. corporate power in public life, and the true deterioration of the 'American Dream' has at last begun to arrive with the victory of Donald Trump.

How Not To Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working ClassResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018This essay refutes conceptions of what working class really means by reactivating fundamental Marxist insights about class formation that have been obscured by decades of neoliberalism. The author argues that the key to developing a sufficient understanding of the working class is the framework of social reproduction.

How the EU's principled pragmatism sows strife in the Middle EastResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at how the European Union is creating greater instability, distrust, and casualties like Jamal Khashoggi, by trading fundamental values such as human rights for more practical avenues coined as "principled pragmatism".

How the Guardian aided the anti-semitesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Who do you help when you censor a cartoon depicting Israel's well-documented war crimes against Palestinians  and do so on the grounds that the criticism of Israel is anti-semitic?The answer is: you help anti-semites.

How the internet 'punishes' PalestiniansTech giants Google, Airbnb and PayPal accused of shaping false narratives with policies in Palestinian territories.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Multinational tech companies, including Google, Facebook and PayPal are being accused of complicity in rights violations and in shaping false narratives with regard to policies in Palestinian territories.

How the UAW Can Make It RightResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Aswar discusses how the UAW lost the vote at the Nissan plant in Mississippi and proposes that Organized laboUr adapt Opertaion Dixie to move forward.

How They Sold the Iraq WarResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The war on Iraq won't be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold: it was a propaganda war, a war of perception management.

How to create an ecological societyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A review of the book "Creating an Ecological Society: Towards A Revolutionary Transformation" by Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, which addresses different aspects of the debate on the politics of the environment.

How to Start a Nuclear WarThe increasingly direct road to ruinResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A chilling look at the security measures and processes behind the U.S. nuclear weapons system. The article examines how safeguards and procedures have evolved, including more recent efforts to curb the President's absolute authority to push the button.

Huawei executive's arrest provokes anti-US protests in ChinaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The arrest of a Huawei executive in Canada has led to a wave of anger in China, in a move perceived to undermine China's increasingly dominant position in advanced technology. On Chinese social media comments denounce the arrest and call for the executive's immediate release as well as a boycott of Canadian brands.

Hue Back When: the Bloodbath in Vietnam Was UsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at Mark Bowden's book "Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam", which provides a two-sided perspective on a particularly tragic moment in the Vietnam War.

"I Really Don't Care, Do U?" the Mendacity of EvilResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018While Americans consider themselves well above the authoritarianism and atrocities of such regimes as Nazi Germany, the author takes a look at some disturbing connections and similarites with the United States.

ICE: The making of an American GestapoResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Justin Akers Chacón, author of Radicals in the Barrio and co-author with Mike Davis of No One Is Illegal, takes an in-depth look at the troubling history and practices of a government agency that more and more people are calling to be abolished.

The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long AgoResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Should the media include positive editorial content secretly paid for by major corporations, as London's Evening Standard newspaper has begun doing, according to new revelations?Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read?

The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long AgoResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read? But here's a seditious idea. Would that be such a bad thing? Maybe it would better if we were far more wary of the corporate media and began to think of it chiefly as a sales platform  selling us an ideology harmful to our individual welfare and that of our societies.

Immigration and Cultural LossResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018While immigration has brought major changes in the physical character of British cities and in the rhythm of social life, it is not alone in driving social changes nor is it even the most important driver of social change.

In Middle East Wars It Pays to be SkepticalResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In the context of Western air strikes on alleged Syrian biological weapons sites on 14 April, 2018, the history of the bombing of the Abu Ghraib baby milk factory in 1991 underscores the need for permanent scepticism towards claims by U.S. and Western governments that they know exactly what is happening on the ground in Syria.

Indian Country: The Situation is Bleak, But Not HopelessResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Discusses how even though issues such as the Dakota Access Pipeline have received lots of public attention people are unaware of how Indigenous dispossession is deeply ingrained in the fabric of the US.

Indian Country: The Situation is Bleak, But Not HopelessResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A discussion of Stephanie Woodard's book "American Apartheid: The Native Struggle for Self-Determination and Inclusion" and looking at how present-day colonial practices impact Native people in the US.

Industrial accident claims three lives in Leduc, AlbertaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the troubling indifference to the alarming statistics on worker fatalities, and the lax occupational health and safety regulations that are designed to protect employers and permit the further expansion of company profits.

Inside Google's Effort to Develop a Censored Search Engine in ChinaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Google analyzed search terms entered into a Beijing-based website to help develop blacklists for a censored search engine it has been planning to launch in China, according to confidential documents seen by The Intercept. Engineers working on the censorship sampled search queries from 265.com, a Chinese-language web directory service owned by Google.

Institutionalizing Intolerance: Bullies Win, Freedom Suffers When We Can't Agree to DisagreeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018As America has become ever more polarized, and those polarized factions have become more militant and less inclined to listen to -- or even allow for the existence of -- other viewpoints, we are fast becoming a nation of people who just can't get along. Here's the thing: if Americans don't learn how to get along--at the very least, agreeing to disagree and respecting each other's right to subscribe to beliefs and opinions that may be offensive, hateful, intolerant or merely different--then we're going to soon find that we have no rights whatsoever (to speak, assemble, agree, disagree, protest, opt in, opt out, or forge our own paths as individuals). In such an environment, when we can't agree to disagree, the bullies (on both sides) win and freedom suffers.

An Interview with Norman Finkelstein: "I'm Not Betraying the Legacy of My Parents in Order to Make Myself Palatable."Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Norman Finkelstein is among the leading scholars on the Israel-Palestine conflict in the United States. His work primarily focuses on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the Nazi Holocaust. For decades, he has advocated for a two state solution on the June 1967 borders, a "just solution to the refugee question," an end to the Israeli settlements in Palestine, the deconstruction of the border wall, the right to clean water, and an end to the occupation, the Gaza blockade, and the use of force against the Palestinians.

Islamic State in Ukraine: A Christmas present from the WestResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The report in British newspaper the Times, that Chechen Islamists, many reeling from defeat in Syria and Iraq amongst the alphabet soup of fanaticism, had indeed arrived at the war front in eastern Ukraine, woke me up from any Christmas torpor.

Israel Commemorates Nakba with Mass Murder at the Gaza FenceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018On the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" that resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and the theft of their lands, homes, and even their household possessions, the message today was clear: the Israeli state is prepared to maintain its apartheid state by any means necessary. The catastrophe for the Palestinians was the birth of Israel and was celebrated by the Israeli state with tear gas, bullets and the blood of Palestinians.

Israel deliberately provoked the latest violence in Gaza, but you won't learn that in the NY TimesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The Times breathlessly and at length recounts Israeli anxiety over the limited attacks from Gaza: "Sirens blared again;" "cellphones were buzzing with alerts of incoming rockets." The Times has a reporter in Gaza, Iyad Abuheweila, but the paper had nothing to say whatsoever about how Gazans were reacting to being under assault. Maybe their cellphones were also buzzing, and their children were also afraid?

Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?Resource Type: BookFirst Published: 2018Josh Ruebner draws on personal anecdotes and reflections, historical documents, and legal analyses to answer one of the most pressing issues in international affairs today: is Israel a democracy or does its separate and unequal treatment of the Palestinian people render it an apartheid state?

Israel is arming neo-Nazis in UkraineResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A report on Israeli weapons and training being provided to anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi soldiers in the Ukraine.

Israel Is The Real Problem Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Elite power cannot abide a serious challenge to its established position. And that is what Labour under Jeremy Corbyn represents to the Tory government, the corporate, financial and banking sectors, and the 'mainstream' media. The manufactured 'antisemitism crisis' is the last throw of the dice for those desperate to prevent a progressive politician taking power in the UK: someone who supports Palestinians and genuine peace in the Middle East, a strong National Health Service and a secure Welfare State, a properly-funded education system, and an economy in which people matter; someone who rejects endless war and complicity with oppressive, war criminal 'allies' such as the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Israel rolls out the welcome mat for Europe's neo-fascistsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The recent visit to Israel of a dominant figure in Italy's right-wing coalition government, is the latest in an increasingly open alliance between the Israeli state and resurgent forces of the far-right and neo-fascism in Europe.

Israel steps up its war on mixed marriagesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The Israeli government has long funded various efforts to try to prevent romantic relationships between Jews and non-Jews, both inside territories it controls and around the world. But a new program confirmed this month by the tourism ministry takes Israel's war on families of mixed religion or ethnicity to a new level.

Israeli army razes home of prominent Palestinian activistResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The Israeli army has demolished a residential building owned by a prominent Palestinian activist, whose six sons have been imprisoned by Israel. The building, owned by Latifa Abu Hmeid, is located in the Amari refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.

Israeli Government Fears Palestinian CamerasResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A report on a Bill by the Israeli Knessett that would criminalize the filming of Israeli soldiers in Palestine, with a proposed five year jail sentence for offenders.

Israelis Just Keep Killing People, Stealing LandResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The recent killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by Israeli sharpshooters following the "The Great March of Return" is outlined, as well as the ongoing futility of Israel's policy and actions against the self-governing Palestinian territory whose population are forced to live under dire conditions.

The Italian Long 68Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Taddeo describes how the charateristics of 1968 continued in Italy passed 1968 and his subsequent participation in various movements. He explains that with the struggles of 1977 and the repression that followed, one can say that the social ferment begun in Italy in 1968 had exhausted itself.

Joyless in ZionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Israel is held in contempt by much of the western world, and Israelis know it even as they get down to the hard business of shooting border-crossers. The New York Times did a piece suggesting that Israelis have a conscience about the violence they poured forth at the Gaza border, and they hope that it was the right thing to do. But Gideon Levy says they have lost their conscience; and that was my impression too from interviewing Israeli Jews in West Jerusalem. I talked to 20 people. Every one expressed support for the killings. There was simply no dissent.

Just Transition: Let Detroit Breathe!A talk by William CopelandResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018William Copeland presents the campaign, Let Detroit Breathe. The campaign's prinicipal aim is to help Detroiters win their right to breathe clean air.

Just When You Thought 'Russiagate' Couldn't Get Any SillierResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The lawsuit against the Trump campaign, the Russian government and WikiLeaks is simply the latest version of what the DNC has been doing since 2016, which is trying to fob blame for its loss of an election it should have won.

Justice for Hassan Diab and the Unbearable Banality of EvilResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Deutsch examines the case of Dr. Hassan Diab - a sociology professor and Canadian citizen who was accused of bombing the Rue Copernic Synagogue - and uses it to critique international and domestic justice systems.

Justice Kennedy and the Myth of the Legal NeutralityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The enduring myth in America that law and politics are separate is put into question at the end of 2017 with 5-4 decisions upholding President Trump's travel ban, the striking down mandatory public sector union fees, and the resignation of Justice Kennedy.

Karl Kautsky: From Pope to RenegadeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Once recognized as "The Pope of Marxism" for his popularization and systematization of Marxist ideas, Kautsky fell into obscurity following the Russian Revolution. In recent revival of interest in his politics, in both academia and on the political left, raises questions about the meaning of Kautsky's orthodox Marxism and about what a renewed revolutionary left should adopt from it as their own.

Kidnapper Trump as SymptomResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The current plight of asylum seekers in the United States and the traumatic separation of children from parents at the southern U.S. border, is the most recent American policy that is racially motivated.

Killing Children: From Ireland to PalestineResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The most tragic casualty in a conflict is that of a child, the most disturbing casualty in a conflict is that of a child killed purposely. In Palestine there is a disturbingly tragic high rate of children killed by those sporting the uniform of Israeli armed forces.

Killing GazaA documentary film about life under siegeResource Type: Film/VideoFirst Published: 2018Independent journalists Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen documented Israels 2014 assault on Gaza during the war, and chronicled its horrific aftermath. As they waded through the rubble of Gazas destroyed border regions, they turned a camera onto the survivors of the slaughter and let them speak for themselves. Dan returned, week after week, to capture on film the daily struggles of the people of Gaza as they suffered through one of the worst winters in recorded history, and then weathered the sweltering summer heat without electricity and -- in many cases -- without homes. While giving voice to the pain of a people under siege, Cohen and Blumenthal also highlighted Gazans inspiring acts of creative resistance, from painting to break-dancing to literature, that allow them maintain their humanity in the face of deprivation and war. Yet this film is much more than a documentary about Palestinian resilience and suffering. It is a chilling visual document of war crimes committed by the Israeli military, featuring direct testimony and evidence from the survivors.

"Killing Gaza" captures culture of resistanceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Watch Killing Gaza, absorb the atmosphere of siege and listen to the testimonies of the trapped. You might then understand why so many chose to rush the gates.

Korea: What the Generals Aren't Telling YouResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Hamilton points out that the 24 nuclear power stations in South Korea represent high risk targets in a retaliatory attack from North Korea.

The Kurdish Crisis in Iraq and SyriaAgainst the Current vol. 192Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In discussion of right of self-determination for the between 28 and 35 million Kurdish people in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran, the author considers the current polticial landscape.

Language for Resisting OppressionReview of Revolutionary Keywords for a New LeftResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Review of the Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left by Ian Parker.

The language of the unheardResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A book review of "A People's History of Riots, Protest and the Law: The Sound of the Crowd" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) by author Matt Clement.

The League of Assad-Loving Conspiracy TheoristsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018So the global capitalist ruling classes' War on Dissent is now in full swing. With their new and improved official narrative, "Democracy versus the Putin-Nazis," successfully implanted in the public consciousness, the corporatocracy have been focusing their efforts on delegitimizing any and all forms of deviation from their utterly absurd and increasingly paranoid version of reality.

The Left Has Better Things to Do Than Watch Liberals Scratch Their HeadsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Drawing from author David Harvey's work "The Ways of the World", Munson examines how Liberal-democracy has changed when the nucleus of capitalism shifted in the 1970's from the production of goods to the production of 'signs'. He further examines how 'neo-liberalism' is now grappling and adjusting in the era of Trump.

Lenin and the Tsarist DumaA review of August H Nimtz, Lenins Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streetsor Both Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Donnelly reviews Nimtz's two volume account of Lenin's pre-revolution electoral strategy and summarises the thesis that Lenin's critique of reformism in parliamentary democracy was rooted in the conclusions of Marx and Engels.

Leon Rosselson on GazaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In Gaza the slaughter was premeditated and calculated. The snipers were primed to kill. They had their orders. They used the protesters, men women, children, for target practice. According to the latest reports, 109 Palestinians??including children, one an 8 month old baby -- have been killed and over 6,000 wounded, including nearly 1000 children. The wounds were particularly debilitating because Israeli soldiers used dumdum bullets which expand when they enter the body. The bullets used are causing injuries local medics say they have not seen since 2014. The entrance wound is small.The exit wound is devastating, causing gross comminution of bone and destruction of soft tissue.

Lessons from James BaldwinReview of James Baldwin: The FBI File; Against the Current vol. 192Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A review of James Baldwin: The FBI File, a novel edited by William J. Maxwell which sets out an interpretive frame,through which readers may study his excerpts his file from the FBI.

The Lessons of the World Cup for our Victim CultureResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018That we are living in an age of victim culture is well-exemplified by an article recently published by the CBC suggesting that minorities "feel apprehensive about heading into the wild because they don't see themselves reflected in the outdoor industry and media." The underlying premise is that a paucity of representations of members of these groups constructs the outdoors as a kind of "unsafe space" of which people from these communities ask, according to the African-American author of a book called The Adventure Gap, James Mills, "'Do I belong here? And if somebody believes that I dont belong here, will they do something to harm me?'"

Let Us Now Praise Infamous AnimalsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In medieval Europe (and even colonial America) thousands of animals were summoned to court and put on trial for a variety of offenses, ranging from trespassing, thievery and vandalism to rape, assault and murder. The defendants included cats, dogs, cows, sheep, goats, slugs, swallows, oxen, horses, mules, donkeys, pigs, wolves, bears, bees, weevils, and termites. These tribunals were not show trials or strange festivals like Fools Day. The tribunals were taken seriously by both the courts and the community.

Letter to the EditorsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Georgakas responds to the book review of Finally Got the News in a previous issue of the journal. He was disheartened that pertinent political and artistic seeds that directly fed that period have been neglected.

Liberal Totalitarianism and the Trump DiversionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Baraka warns against enthusiastic embrace of the FBI as a "neutral political force populated by people of unreproachable character" in light of their well documented history of politically motivated targetting of civil rights activists.

License to KillResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Halimi places alleged Russian involvement in the attempted assasination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the context of routine extrajudicial killings by the wider inernational security services.

Life without Limits: The Delusions of Technological FundamentalismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In a routinely delusional world, what is the most dangerous delusion? This delusion is not limited to one country, one group, or one political party, but rather is the unstated assumption of everyday life in the high-energy/high-technology industrial world. This is the delusion that we are -- to borrow from the title of a particularly delusional recent book -- the god species.

Local Autonomy: A Key to Protection of the EcosystemApo Island's Protected Landscape and SeascapeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In his book, The Plundered Seas, Michael Berrill called the Grand Banks and Georges Bank maybe the saddest story of overfishing.Berrills solution was the management of Large Marine Ecosystems.

The Logic of Human SurvivalBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Review of a Marxist look at the concept of the Anthropocene.

London Pub Crawl with Karl MarxResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018An account by Wilhelm Liebknecht of an incident which occured during a 'beer trip' -pub crawl- between Karl Marx, other Germans, and some Englishmen.

Lopez Obrador in Mexico: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The newly elected President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has been described by some in the U.S. as a radical socialist, however this article explains that he has already back-peddled on important pre-election promises.

Made-in-China fake news overwhelms TaiwanResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Since 2016, when Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was elected as Taiwan's president relations between Taiwan and China have been increasingly strained. In parallel, a series of fake news campaigns have captured Taiwanese media, with experts tracing several of these stories back to China.

The Making of C.L.R. JamesBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A short, positive review of a graphic novel about CLR James.

The Making of Corporate EmpireBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Review of a book covering Henry Ford's "ethos of the assembly line" and how his racist views shaped it in different places.

The Malevolent Hypocrisy of Selective SanctionsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at why the US government is steadfast in its support of the Saudi dictatorship no matter what criminal excesses may be perpetrated by the Riyadh regime, while on the other hand it is determined to punish other countries like Cuba and Venezuela with severe economic sanctions.

Manifesto of Indian FarmersResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Adopted by an assembly representing the farmers of India, the manifesto outlines Indian farmers convictions, principals, concerns, rights and calls on the parliament of India to hold a Special Session to address the agrarian crisis by passing and enacting the two Kisan Mukti Bills and address additional demands.

Marc Lamont Hill's Detractors are the True Anti-SemitesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Temple University's administration announced the unsurprising news that it has found no grounds to punish or investigate Professor Marc Lamont Hill for his speech on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Yet, the university's Board of Trustees felt compelled, nonetheless, to issue a statement further maligning Dr Hill, albeit indirectly this time.

Marx at 200; Capital at 150Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Holmstrom discusses the relevance of Marx's Das Capital in understanding modern and historical economic systems. Specifically, she looks at the themes of exploitation, gender, race and capital.

Marx in 1968 in FranceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In a personal essay, Coleman describes his personal experiences in France from 1966-1968.He highlights significant number of Marxists teaching in both high schools and secondary settings. Furthermore, he discusses how the working class perceived in the Marxist far left, Trotskyist and Maoist press before May 1968.

Marx in 1968: Report on a JourneyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Harvey Goldman discusses his intellectual jounrey during the 1960s in relationship to Marism. As a member of SDS, Goldman was engaged actively in student activism.

Marx and the "International"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A rebuttal of the idea of Marx as Eurocentric and a white supremacist.

Marx is dead, long live Marx!Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Duran describes 1968 as an an "ideological revolution which unquestionably affected the dominant revolutionary ideology, Marxism, and here begins my contribution, which I will divide into two large sections: an account of the situation in Spain, and then the rebirth ofMarxism, and why we can say: 'Long live Marx!'"

Marx and Marxism in Berkeley in 1968Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Setting context by describing the early twentieth century political landscape in Berkeley, Goldner continues to describe his experince as a student at UC Berkeley by discussing local, national and international contexts for my encounter with Marx in Berkeley, 1968.

Marx and OrganizationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Lause examines Marx's involvement in different organizations and argues that he seems never to have had a problem not being in an organization -- not because he accorded organization no importance, but rather that the importance he accorded it depended entirely on the demands of the class struggle around him.

Marx Turns 200: A Mixed GiftBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A mixed but detailed review of a biography of Karl Marx. The author likes the Life material but has problems with the treament of the Works.

A Marxist History of Capitalism (Book Review)Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A book review of Henry Heller's "A Marxist History of Capitalism" which restores class struggle to a central place in explaining how capitalism arose and grew, and can eventually be overcome.

Marx's Ecology: Recovered LegacyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Löwy says that while mainstream ecologicail theory has been dismissive of Karl Marx, serious research in recent decades has recovered some of his very important insights on ecological issues.

Massacres and MoralityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018What can one say about the morality of Israeli soldiers who shoot unarmed protestors, and then are caught on camera cheering their kills? And how do we judge the civilian population of Israel, many of whom openly support and cheer their soldiers as they go about their work of killing Palestinians? And what can we say about the political leaders of other countries, Canada say, who sit down and smile and make deals with officials of the Israeli government at the very moment that the killing is going on?

The May '68 Events and Revolution in the WestResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The political explosion fifty years ago in May 1968 in France has become a key historical marker for the Left. In an outburst of political revolt, workers seized factories and students occupied universities bringing France to a halt in a series of massive general strikes.

The Meaning of Heritage in an Age of IdentityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A discussion of the meaning of heritage in the current age of identity politics, and why there is a need to reject the nativist, or clash of civilizations, and the multicultural approaches to heritage.

Media Panic Over the Stock Market PlungeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The media continue to be in a panic over the drop in the stock market over the last few weeks. Fortunately for political pundits, there is no expectation that they have any clue about the subjects on which they opine. For those more interested in economics than hysterics, the drop in the market is not a big deal.

Memoir From the UndergroundResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A review of the film "Memoir of War", directed by Emmanuel Finkiel, a semi-fictional memoire of writer Marguerite Duras who lived under a facist regime in Vichy France.

#MeToo for All WomenResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The #MeToo movement exposed systems that abuse and silence of women. It's important to note that these systems are not just individual professions or university administrations but they are enabled by the larger system of capitalism.

The #MeToo Revolution EdtorialResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The editors ask whether the #MeToo Movement will be different than other moments in which sexual abuse was revealed, and propose that organized labour can play a role in ensuring harassment-free work enviroments.

Midian FarmResource Type: FilmFirst Published: 2018From 1971 - 1977, Midian Farm was a back-to-the-land social experiment created by a community of urban baby boomers from Toronto. Part of the youth counterculture movement during a period of social and political re-imagining, its utopian vision eventually collapsed. More than four decades later, filmmaker Liz Marshall unearths a transformative piece of family and Canadian history.

Military 'Service' Serves the Ruling ClassResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Military veteran and peace activist Will Griffin comments on the military campaigns in which he participated, and why he believes that military service ultimately serves noboby but a minority ruling class.

Mining History Written in BloodResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.

Missing Children: The Pottery Barn Rule RevisitedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018If one in five American parents couldn't figure out where their kids were, most people would rightly see the phenomenon as a crisis and a national scandal. Grandstanding prosecutors with visions of gubernatorial campaigns dancing in their heads would conduct mass parental perp walks. Legislators would boost their presidential aspirations by co-sponsoring legislation requiring universal implantation of GPS trackers at birth.

MLK: To the Promised LandCharles Williams interviewing Michael HoneyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Interview with Michael Honey author of the study, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice.

Modernity and NegationsBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Finkel reviews The End of Jewish Modernity and What is Modern Israel? He says they offer complementary perspectives on some of the tragedies confronting todays world, and their historical backgrounds.

The Moral Economy of the Iranian ProtestsBeset by inequality and corruption, Iran's provincial working classes are revolting against the revolution's broken promisesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the root causes of the widespread protests that have been taking place, primarily in provincial towns, throughout Iran. Persistent unemployment and inflation, overdue wages and pensions, environmental degradation, and ponzi schemes are a far cry from the social justice vision that animated and united the revolutionary forces of 1979.

Moroccan Catastrophic ConvergenceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The convergance of injustices in Morocco - climate change, neoliberalism, political suppression - make for a completely untenable situation. This could make people hopeful since it makes radical change the only possibility.

Mozambique won't be Mato GrossoResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A popular movement centred on a small farming village in northern Mozambique has, for the moment, halted an attempt to move to cash-crop monocultures mainly for export.

My Experiences in 1968 in Working-Class TurinResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Lepore recounts his experiences growing up in 1968 in working class Turin. He highlight the influence of the newspaper, Lotta Comunista, its developed Marxist approach and his subsequent involvement with, and then commitment to, that group.

Nanking MassacreResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A summary of the massacre at Nanking (Nanjing) , which occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937. During this period soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army perpetrated horrific atrocities, and murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000.

The NED's Useful Idiots Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018On Friday, June 8, 2018, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow augmented her nightly Russiagate fetish by extolling the merits of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), telling her huge audience that the NED, created in the 1980s by the Ronald Reagan administration, still does the "non-partisan hard work around the world, of promoting small D democracy and promoting the institutions of civil society that any culture needs in order to have a functioning democracy."

A New COINTELPRO?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Malik discusses the revelations that the FBI is targeting Black Lives Matters and what Justice Department head Jeff Sessions calls Black identity extremists as well as the response to open racism and how to move forward.

A New Economic Model for the South: Ditch Corporate Welfare and Fund Agricultural Co-opsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A report from the Institute for Policy Studies, titled "Agricultural Cooperatives: Opportunities and Challenges for African-American Women in the South," makes the case that redirecting governmental support from corporate welfare to agricultural co-ops could provide an alternative vision for economic development in the Southern United States.

A New Native-Led Strategy for Fighting Keystone XLResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Sacred crops planted by the Poca represent another legal barrier for the construction of the Keystone pipeline, as its intended path must now cross sacred historic sites owned by a sovereign tribal nation.

New Orleans' History of StruggleReview of Development Drowned and Reborn; Against the Current vol. 192Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A review of Development Drowned and Reborn which is a novel by Clyde Woods.

A New Politics? Movements, Power and TransformationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Hilary Wainwrights latest book, A New Politics from the Left (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press), represents a timely appeal for a democratic, participatory, and bottom-up political transformation.

The New Poor People's CampaignResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Though there has been progress in electoral politics since the days of MLK this success leaves many people behind. The New Poor People's Campaign seeks to create a grassroots movement to counter that.

The New York Times' Second Assassination of Razan at-NajjarResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018On 1 June 2018, an Israeli assassin poised along "the largest concentration camp ever to exist" killed 20-year-old paramedic Razan al-Najjar. On 7 June 2018, the New York Times assassinated her a second time. It surely does not surprise that the Times provides yeomans service for Israeli hasbara.

The Nightmare of Neoliberal FascismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Henry A. Geroux gives his analysis on such subjects as fascism and white nationalism in the age of Trump, and the state of higher education in a time of Neo-liberalism.

1917 and the Colonial RevolutionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Solenberger discuss the 1917 Russian Revolution and the subsequent spead of the communist movement internationally. He focuses on the conditions which led to the rapid spread of its ideas and how in 1920 the movement went from being on the offense to defence.

No ExitThe ongoing abuses of Australia's refugee policyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A first person account of the refugee crisis in Australian detention centres. At great expense the Australian government holds detainees offshore in crowded camps, many of whom are stranded and living under deplorable conditions.

No Fare Is Fair: A Campaign for Free Public Transit in TorontoWhy Do We Need Free Transit?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Public transit should be a right for everyone in Toronto. Using subways, buses, and streetcars shouldn't require paying fares, or user fees, that penalize riders with lower incomes.

No matter how it appears, Trump isn't getting out of Syria and AfghanistanResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Trump's plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Syria don't reflect a large change in US foreign policy. US troops are only a small part of the forces currently deployed there and they will probably be replaced with mercenaries paid for by oil monarchies.

No Remorse: Reflections on Radical "Purism"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Street justifies his critical commentary on the disappointing presidency of Barrack Obama and the standard neoliberal manipulation of campaign populism and identity politics in service to big-money. He also takes a cynical look at the DMC, another party of corporations, as well as Bernie Sanders and what a Sanders Presidency might have looked like.

No Spirit Of Liberty - The Salisbury Case, Corbyn And The Need For DissentResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at recent 'Mainstream' media coverage, notably the Guardian and BBC, which has been instrumental in presenting a misleading image of Prime Minsiter May as a stable leader, and yet presents Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in a much less flattering light.

No such thing as socialist ZionismThe historic contradictions of the Zionist left are being played out in the death throes of Meretz, writes Tony GreensteinResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Greenstein discusses the historic contraditions associated with Labour Zionism and explains why the term 'Socialist Zionist' just cannot exist.

No Trump, No Clinton, No NATOResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Murray explains why the notion that those who do not want Clinton in power are therefore supporters of Trump is intellectually risible and politically dishonest.

Noam Chomsky: Moral Depravity Defines US PoliticsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018An interview with Noam Chomsky where he discusses the political parties' lack of focus on crucial issues. Though made hopeful by young progessive candidates winning in the midterms, electoral politics should not be the focus for radical political change.

Norman Finkelstein and Dr. Mads GilbertResource Type: Film/VideoFirst Published: 2018A discussion with professor and author Norman Finkelstein about his book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom".

Not My RevolutionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The Women's March is not immune to the same forces that have confronted the political left in the U.S. for decades. The larger women's movement itself, that sprang from the antiwar movement and civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, carried flaws along with its development that are not new to left political movements in the U.S.

Notes on TerminologyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at common and popular terminology and 'labeling', especially in the media, which at times is not only inaccurate and misleading, but also diminishes or softens the severity of an event.

Of a Type Developed by LiarsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Porton Down scientists are not able to identify the nerve gas as being of Russian manufacture, and have been resentful of the pressure being placed on them to do so. Porton Down would only sign up to the formulation "of a type developed by Russia" after a rather difficult meeting where this was agreed as a compromise formulation.

Off the Map: Disabilities and Just MobilityPeople with disabilities who rely on local public transit are getting squeezed between gentrification and austerity.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018An examination of the tensions between investment driven public transit improvements and displacement of less affluent residents; with particular reference to people with mobility issues or disabilities.

The Official Fake NewsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Emmanuel Macron, who was comfortably elected to the presidency, has instructed his parliamentary majority to provide him with a law against 'fake news' during election campaigns. The law would be a selective halt to the the dissemination of information with dangerous consequences.

Oliver Law, the Lincoln Brigade's Black CommanderResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018General Colin Powell was three months old when at 33 tall, broad-shouldered Texas African American Oliver Law, became the first Black Commander of an American Army.The date was June 12, 1937.Law was selected by a committee of three white officers to lead this integrated army.Heard of Colin Powell but never heard of Oliver Law? Hardly surprising. Laws not mentioned in school books or social studies classes, and has yet to find a place in most college texts or history courses. But Law made his mark on world history in June 1937and for very good reasons.

On 'Bullshit Jobs'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A review of the book "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" by anthropologist David Graeber, which provides a classification for the many forms of employment, some which he deems not only meaningless and unfullfilling, but ultimately harmful to society.

On the 'Duty to Protect'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018On April 14, 2018, U.S.-British-French forces launched a missile strike on alleged Syrian chemical weapons facilities, citing as justification the 'duty to protect'. Finkel make it clear that this attack was illegal under international law.

On Purpose, In KabulResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Amid years of fighting and war profiteering the Afghan Peace Volunteers (APV) forge ahead with impressive work that demonstrates what needs to be done to rebuild the war-torn and economically devastated country.

On Resistance: BDS and Israel's Declining Support Among Diaspora JewsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Like its predecessor movement decades ago in South Africa, assessing the success of BDS against Israel today necessarily rubs up against the tension between Israeli Hasbara (propaganda) and its reality as an effective organizing tool against it throughout the world.

On the nature of changeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The first in a series of articles exploring how dialectical systems thinking can direct change making. The 'On the Nature of Change' series will have three clear sections: 'The Philosophers' will examine a philosophical theory of change, and how this has developed and evolved over time. The second, 'Interpreting the World', and will apply this theory to three fundamental areas: the self, the team, society. Lastyly, 'Changing the World', will present clear ways in which this theory of change can be practically applied.

The 'One Democratic State Campaign' program for a multicultural democratic state in Palestine/IsraelResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018As the Leonard Cohen song goes, ":everybody knows" the two-state solution is dead and gone. Zionisms 120-year quest to Judaize Palestine  to transform Palestine into the Land of Israel  has been completed. Every Israeli government since 1967 has refused to seriously entertain the notion of a genuinely independent and viable Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel.

Open and Hidden HorrorsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Before Trump's December 6, 2017 recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, American aggression and its results were apparent in the Middle East and Africa.

The other side of Gaza: Swimming, canoeing and 'trying' to be a childResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Here in Gaza, I want to tell this story. To show our audience a piece of a normal life, away from Hamas, or Israel's "terror" rhetoric, away from the diplomatic efforts, the political bargaining, away from the weekly Friday protests. Just show you something normal.

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018What are we eating?Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2018What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else. For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2018How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018Looking for Answers, Creating AlternativesResource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2018This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018Their Interent or Ours?Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2018The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018Massacres and MoralityResource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2018In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad. The issue also questions the morality of those who either support, or keep silent about, the violence of the oppressor.

The Other Whisper NetworkHow Twitter feminism is bad for womenResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Katie Roiphe takes a closer look at the #MeToo movement, particularly the use of Twitter and social media which can dangerously be used to rouse extremes in a similar way that Trump has energized his supporters.

Over 90% of the world's children breathe toxic air every dayResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the WHO report on "Air pollution and child health: Prescribing clean air", a study of the heavy toll of both outdoor and household air pollution on the health of the world's children, particularly those living in low and middle-income nations.

Painting a false pictureResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A review of the book "The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media" by Greg Shupak.

Pakistan: Teachers and Farmers Protests Brutally Crushed in SindhResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018On December 25, 2017, primary, secondary and high school teachers in Karachi held a defiant protest against the Sindh government due to its refusal to provide them with permanent jobs despite having agreed to do so in 2014. The provincial government is refusing to honor its agreement even after forcing teachers to pass a rigorous examination conducted by the National Testing Service and the University of Sindh.

The Patriarchal StrangleholdBook reviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A review of the book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne.

PayPal censors journalists who criticize IsraelResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Under apparent influence from Benjamin Weinthal, PayPal chose to close down the account of the French online publication Agence Media Palestine. Such a move constitutes censorship as it denies journalists the means to raise money for their work and freedom to express ideas.

The PCP in the Portuguese Revolution 1974-5: crisis, state and revolutionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018How did the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), loyal to the Soviet Union deep into the second half of the 20th century, react to a social revolution in 1974-5? The moments are rare when we can study workers' revolutions in a European country where the Communist Party had a decisive influence. I argue here that the revolution happened despite the party, not because of it. The USSR wanted above all to maintain the equilibrium of the Cold War, and Portugal was, in the division made at Yalta and Potsdam in 1945, in the NATO sphere. The PCP was faithful to that policy.

William A. PelzObituaryResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Obituary for labour history scholar and activist William A Pelz.

The Plot to Attack IranHow the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify IranResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2018A summary to the US war against Iranian democracy and the complex situation in the Middle East.

Police Broke Into Chelsea Manning's Home with Guns Drawn - in a 'Wellness Check'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A video recording of a 'wellness check' by police in Maryland, USA, shows police officers arriving with weapons drawn. The incident sheds light on a very disturbing police procedure and whether law enforcement should be called at all as first responders in matters of mental health.

Popular Front Counter-MemoriesBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Ehlers reviews Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War by Benjamin Balthaser.

The Power Struggle in Catalonia, or the Staging of a TragicomedyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018One, a consolidated power, is the Spanish state. The other, an emerging power, drives the project to create a state of its own, a project promoted by nationalists and pro-independence currents. These include a fraction of the divided system (PdeCat, erc and cup) and some social organizations (the Catalan National Assembly, Omnium Cultural and some trade unions) -- with the support of an important part of society.

President Trump's War Crime is Worse than the One He Accuses Assad ofResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The single most important thing that happened Friday night when the US military on President Trump's orders launched a wave of over 100 cruise missiles against Syria was that once again the US violated the most profound international law of war: initiating a war of aggression against a nation that posed no threat, imminent or otherwise, to the US or its allies.

Pret-A-Patriarchy  on "modest" fashionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018"Modest" fashion is a fast growing industry with companies like Dolce & Gabbana, H&M, Marks and Spencer, DKNY, Zara and others all rushing to cash in. But while more choice is undoubtedly good, I have a problem with the labelling.

Privatizing the IRSResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The headline in the New York Times on January 10, 2018, a few short days before Congress decided it was easier to shut down the government than to legislate, announced that the I.R.S. "paid $20 million to collect $6.7 million in Tax Debts." At first blush the reader assumed this was a story that had somehow crept into the newspaper by mistake and escaped the attention of the articles editor. The reader who thought that could be forgiven for being surprised at seeing the story. That is because that story had appeared in the New York Times and other publications on two earlier occasions.

The Progress of This StormNature and Society in a Warming WorldResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2018An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other.

Public Spaces, Private ControlResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the commercialization of public spaces in Britain and elsewhere in the industrialized world, where gentrification and increasingly troubling privatization of public spaces goes largely unnoticed by a populace caught up in the day-to-day grind of living.

Punching the ClockResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018An excerpt from David Graeber's book "Bullshit Jobs" published by Simon and Schuster. Graeber, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, looks at the existence of meaningless work and the psychological and societal harm that results.

Quiet, Please! The Latest Threat to the Big WildResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the growing problem of noise pollution in Glacier National Park in Montana, where each summer helicopters carrying tourists fly low over the landscape.

Race and the Logic of CapitalReview of Class, Race, and MarxismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A review of Review of Class, Race, and Marxism by David Roediger.

The radical Robert BurnsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018For many people the only association they have with the work of Robert Burns is singing Auld Lang Syne at New Year celebrations or at annual Burns Supper events. The real Burns, the radical, revolutionary Burns, is rarely even hinted at in these events. Instead what we have is a sentimentalised, romanticised portrayal of Burns as what Henry Mackenzie called "that heav'n taught ploughman". MacKenzie was a lawyer, novelist and editor of The Lounger magazine in which he reviewed Burns's work. Burns admired some of Mackenzie's work; indeed one of his favourite novels was his Man of Feeling (1771). Mackenzie, however, was scornful of Burns's use of vernacular Scots "which greatly damps the pleasure of the reader".

Rage Against the Machine: A War vs. ConsensusResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018As it stands now, even if the unlikely liberal wet dream of a Trump impeachment actually comes to pass, the theocratic Mike Pence will simply assume office. No doubt cities like New York and Boston will initially erupt in celebration. But should it really be that long before the realization dawns that the real work remained ongoing?

Raising Consciousness About The Color of LawResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" by auther Richard Rothstein, and how racial segregation is the underlying cause of much of the country's social and economic problems.

Reality check: Croatian uniform virtually identical to...Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Some media reports are ga-ga that the Croatian team will be wearing its red and white checkered uniform in the 2018 World Cup final on Sunday against France. Far from being innocent or fashionable, this is ominous. By allowing this uniform to be worn, FIFA is emboldening the Croatian fascists and their European allies such those in Ukraine.

Rebel Without a Clue: Autonomy and Authority in the American Public SchoolResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The high school dropout is a revolutionary without having recovered the sense of dignity of failure, in a system of authoritarian control. Blaming the dropout is to blame the victim of institutional abuse of power exercised within youth indoctrination centers carrying the misnomer, school. Is it possible that the problem is mainly systemic and not due to the personal faults of the dropout? Is it possible that the education system itself contributes to young people dropping out of high school? Is it possible that capitalism is the root cause?

Red Fawn Fallis and the Felony of Being Attacked by CopsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The tackling, arrest and imprisonment of female protester Red Fawn Fallis near a Dakota Pipeline construction site is another example of corporate and government abuse of power. When it comes to women dissenters, particularly of black or indigenous dissent, US authorities have a significant history of intimidation and punishment.

Remembering Ireland's Great FamineA review of Black '47 a soon to be released film about the famine in IrelandResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The Irish film, Black 47 (Director Lance Daly) is about the worst year of the catastrophic Irish famine and is set in the west of Ireland in 1847. The story centers around an Irish soldier, Feeney (James Frecheville), returning from serving the British Army in Afghanistan only to find most of his family have perished in the Famine or An Gorta Mor (the Great Hunger) as it is known in Gaelic.

Remembering Italy's Cervi brothers amid far-right surgeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The Cervi brothers in Italy are famous for leading the local peasant resistance against Benito Mussolini's rule. Today, Adelmo Cervi is still a leading voice against the rise of far-right populist parties in Italy.

Remembering the Jallianwala Bagh MassacreResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look back at the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of April 13, 1919, where British colonial forces opened fire on peaceful Indian protesters. The massacre stands as a pivotal moment in Indian history that laid bare the true face of British Imperialism.

Remembering Joanne LandyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Farber recalls the life and work of Joanne Landy. She is remembered as a supporter and organizer for a radical democratic politics opposed to oppression and exploitation throughout the world.

ReplyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A reply by the author of "Money and Totality: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marxs Logic in Capital and the End of the Transformation Problem" to two previous responses to his book.

Report From Southeast AsiaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A general commentary on work and economic conditions in parts of Southeast Asia, and possible comparisons with the ferment in Eastern Europe prior to 1917.

Rethinking community organisingResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Building a just, sustainable future will require transcending traditional community organising models. Working through existing institutions within the current system is not good enough.

Revealed: The Saudi death squad MBS uses to silence dissentResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The MEE reveals information from a Saudi source with intimate knowledge of the Saudi intelligence services, about a death squad that operates under the guidance and supervision of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Revised NAFTA Shows Every Sign of Being Another Trump ScamResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement between the US and Mexico, a deal intended to force Canada, which has the strongest regulations, into signing on disadvantageous terms. Dolack explains why any new NAFTA will undoubtedly be a windfall for multi-national corporations at public expense.

The Rewilding of Humanity?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018John Davis looks back at the exploitation of the wilderness, where urban dwellers are now alienated from the natural world that once surrounded them, and wonders whether we can ever return and live in a more natural and balanced state.

The Rise of the Intellectual PornstarResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Once only found in society's margins, the pornography industry has developed into a multi-billion dollar business that is branching into the mainstream. The article explains that the industry, while still controversial, increasingly comments on the social problems of today and pushes for reforms in areas that other large industries are scared to.

Russia and the War PartyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A critical look at the book "Russian Roulette", by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, which examines alleged Russian interference in the 2017 U.S. election.

"Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists"; Against the Current vol. 194Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In October 1864, Marx drafted the inaugural rules for the International Working Men's Association (First International). Its opening lines were a hymn to freedom and self-activity: "the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves."

Sacrificing Gaza: The Great March of Zionist Hypocrisy Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The Great March of Return is a startling, powerful expression of Palestinian identity and resistance. Thousands of Palestinians have come out, bravely and unapologetically, to say: We refuse to remain invisible. We reject any attempt to assign us to the discard pile of history. We will exercise our fundamental right to go home. They have done this unarmed, in the face of Israels use of deadly armed force against targets (children, press, medics) deliberately chosen to demonstrate the Jewish states unapologetic determination to force them back into submissive exile by any means necessary. By doing this repeatedly over the last few weeks, these incredibly brave men, women, and children have done more than decades of essays and books to strip the aura of virtue from Zionism thats befogged Western liberals eyes for 70 years.

The Saga of a City RisingBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Positive review of a collection of essays about Black organizing in Mississippi. The review focuses on two of the essays with two "key takeaways."

Say 'I Love You'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A commentary on the issue of gun violence in schools in the United States, and the current lack of leadership which narrowly places blame on the shooter rather than tackle the more complex issues and policies which could make a difference.

Say No to 'Hardening' the Schools with Zero Tolerance Policies and Gun-Toting CopsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The last thing the school system needs is harsher penalties and armed guards which turn students into 'inmates'. Schools in the Unites States are already heavily policed, with School Resource Officers (SRO) funded by the Deptartment of Justice, and harsh penalties for kids as young as 4-5 years old.

School Shootings: Who to Listen to Instead of Mainstream ShrinksResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Clinical psychologist Bruce Levine discusses the prevailing cynicism and hopelessnes among young people in the United States -- about their country and their future. In particular the article focuses on troubled young people who have lost any connection with adults and view the world as an uncaring place, and are commonly prescribed medication such as anti-depressants.

A search for roots and connectionsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The post-third-way Labour Party is trying to encourage its many new activist members, especially among the young, to turn the party into a social movement.

Seven Forbidden Words: On the Uses of CensorshipResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In December 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) moved to take ideological control of the agency's budget-writing process. A Trump appointed official presented a directive to the agency's departments listing seven words that were not to be used in budget preparation.

Sex and the Russian RevolutionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The philosophy of the October Revolution contained radical ideas around sexual politics which have been forgotten today. Drawing parallels to today's issues on gender and sexuality could help a new generation get into radical labour politics.

Sex, Scandals and Power#MeToo Mania and the Democrats' "Resistance"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A wide range of behavior -- including flirtation and innuendo, a vulgar text or a crude joke, not to mention unpleasant sex -- is being lumped together with real crimes of coercion and assault. Those called out for sexual impropriety, no matter how trivial, how unproven or how long ago, run the media gantlet, are declared guilty and their careers ruined.

She's Planting the Seeds of Indigenous Food SovereigntyHow Jessie Housty feeds the growth of her Heiltsuk culture and communityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the efforts of Jessie Housty, an Indigenous woman from British Columbia, who is helping to change the diet of her community that is overwhelmingly dominated by industrial food products.

"Show Me Your Papers!" Roundups, Checkpoints and National ID CardResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018With the government empowered to carry out transportation checks to question people about their immigration status within a 100-mile border zone that wraps around the country, you're going to see a rise in these "show your papers" incidents. That's a problem.

Siege and resistance in Gaza  For more than 10 weeks...Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Toufic Haddad, an activist, academic and author of Palestine Ltd: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory, spoke to Omar Hassan about the meaning of the protests  and what next in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.

Siloed Thinking, Climate, and Disposable PeopleResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Judith Deutch takes a look at the human side of the climate disaster and the constricted way of thinking about it, as even those who do recognize anthropogenic climate change still do not examine a range of critical interactions.

The Simulation of DemocracyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The global capitalist ruling classes have been stuck with "democracy" ever since, or, more accurately, with the simulation of democracy.

The Skripal Poisonings and the Ongoing Vilification of PutinResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Pinning the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter by a nerve agent on the Russian state makes little sense, and is an attempt by the West to futher villify Putin who actually had little to gain by ordering such an action.

Slavery and CapitalismBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A review of a collection of essays about the economics of American slavery.

Socialist Register 2019Volume 55: A World Turned Upside Down?Resource Type: BookFirst Published: 2018Since the Great Financial Crisis swept across the world in 2008, there have been few certainties regarding the trajectory of global capitalism, let alone the politics taking hold in individual states. This has now given way to palpable confusion regarding what sense to make of this world in a political conjuncture marked by Donald Trumps Make America Great Again presidency of the United States, on the one hand, and, on the other, Xi Jinpings ambitious agenda in consolidating his position as core leader at the top of the Chinese state.

The Socialists of the PrairiesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Proyect talks about the arrival of the Prairie Trilogy at the Metrograph Theater on Friday, July 27th. The trilogy consists of three documentaries made in 1978 by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson about the radical movement in North Dakota during the heyday of the IWW, the Socialist Party, and the Nonpartisan League (NPL).

South Sudan archivists fear loss of historical textsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018South Sudan doesn't have a museum, so thousands of archival documents are sitting in a small building in the capital, Juba, waiting for a national archives to be built. The project will also need the help of international donors to get off the ground, and the ongoing conflict has made it difficult to secure funding.

The Soviets and Tsarist DebtResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A history of the Soviet's refusal to honor Tsarist debt afterthe 1971 revolution. Looks at the effect on Russia up to and after the end of the USSR.

Starving and Bombed Children of Yemen Seek Entrapment in Flooded Thai CaveResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018While the world was gripped by media coverage of trapped Thai boys in a flooded cave, hundreds of thousands of children were killed and suffering in other parts of the world -- yet received little or no attention. This article examines what this tells us about ourselves and geopolitics.

State of the UAWResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Since the 1979-1981 economic crisis, when the UAW convinced its members to make concessions to the Big-Three, auto-workers have been losing benefits, wages and programs. Feeley discusses the current state of UAW focusing on its leadership.

Stop Whining and Start OrganizingResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A commentary on the state of the labour movment in the United States, which has been in a marked decline since the 1950's. Lindorff discusses why unions are vanishing, loss of membership, disassociation with the Democratic party, and the changes needed to reorganize and enforce workers' rights.

Struggle for equal rights for Palestinians is 'right choice,' and will lead to 'significant exodus of Jews' - Henry Siegman Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Everyone should read Henry Siegman's long piece in the National Interest on the "Implications of President Trump's Jerusalem Ploy." Siegman is a great leader because he has bucked the American and Jewish establishment, of which he is a member, to declare that the two-state solution is dead and buried. He is also a prophet inasmuch as he is counseling American Jewry to give up its attachment to Zionism as a dead letter, no different from a Christian state here, and so prepare itself for a future in which Israel is isolated as a pariah state and there is a "significant exodus of Israels Jews." His words are astounding because Siegman, a Holocaust survivor now in his late 80s, was himself a Zionist, and head of the World Jewish Congress. His bravery in renouncing the animating political faiths of his life-- it's inspiring.

Studying MarxResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Buhle discusses how often participants in "The Movement" were not formally educated in Marxism but rather held self-studies conducted individually and in groups.

The suffering of surrogacy: A veteran feminist spells it outResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation Dr Renate Klein takes on the surrogacy industry with plenty of sass and hard evidence. A dogged feminist academic and publisher for over thirty years, her critique of neoliberal capitalism is always underpinned by an authentic concern for womens wellbeing and a focus on patriarchal structures. She never fails to point out the power differentials. She completely rejects surrogacy in all its forms.

Supreme Toxicity -- ConfirmedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Editorial about Brett Kavanaugh, the U.S. Supreme Court and the hopefulness of grassroots movements like #metoo and BLM spur people to take action.

Surveillance Self-Defense Resource Type: WebsiteFirst Published: 2018Modern technology has given those in power new abilities to eavesdrop and collect data on innocent people. Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF's guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.

Surveillance Self-DefenseResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A guide on how online surveillance works and the various tools and techniques the public can use to help protect themselves from spying.

Suspect in Lahore blasphemy case fighting for his lifeA Christian resident of Lahore says he attempted suicide as interrogators forced him to perform oral sex on cousin.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Christians and other minorities, who make up about two percent of Pakistan's 207 million population, are disproportionately targeted by blasphemy laws, which prescribe a mandatory death penalty for anyone found guilty of "defiling the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad". There is increasing violence associated with the laws, with at least 74 people killed in attacks motivated by blasphemy accusations since 1990.

Syria: The Assad regime - a response to Marcel CartierResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A response to Marcel Cartier's article "Vanguards of Humanity: Why I support Afrin & the Rojava Revolution", which denounces the Turkish invasion of Afrin and calls for solidarity with Rojava. While author Slee agrees with the call for solidarity, there is disagreement with some fundamental points in Cartier's article.

System change means dismantling patriarchyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at patriarchy and the sexual division of labour, and why gender justice is fundamental for meaningful environmental justice, and moreover how grassroots, anti-capitalist feminism is key to system change.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggleResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Coates represents the neoliberal wing of the black freedom struggle that sounds militant about white supremacy but renders black fightback invisible. This wing reaps the benefits of the neoliberal establishment that rewards silences on issues such as Wall Street greed or Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and people. The disagreement between Coates and me is clear: any analysis or vision of our world that omits the centrality of Wall Street power, US military policies, and the complex dynamics of class, gender, and sexuality in black America is too narrow and dangerously misleading. So it is with Ta-Nehisi Coates worldview.

Taking on the Far-Right MenaceAn Interview with Mark Bray Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Diana Feeley and David Finkel interview Mark Bray, author of The Anti-Fascist Handbook and professor at Darmouth College. Bray answers questions about his book, facism, tracking the racist right and tactical issues.

Taking the World to the Brink of AnnihilationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Western neoconservatives and hawks are driving the international situation to increasing tension and danger. Not content with the destruction of Iraq and Libya based on false claims, they are now pressing for a direct US attack on Syria.

A Tale of Two Atrocities: Douma and GazaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Compare the intense media coverage of an alleged Syrian chemical attack to the near silence accorded the horrific civilian massacre perpetrated by Israeli soldiers in Gaza, at the very same time.

Tax Havens and the Other Paris AgreementResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Paradise & Panama papers, Canada & red herrings, and the international agreement on tax havens with "enough loopholes to drive a fleet of Ferraris through"

Thankstaking in the Trumpfederacy: Terminate the Tribe That Aided the PilgrimsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the hostile climate that exists under the Trump Administration for America's first peoples. The article looks at the further erosion treaties and protective laws, and the belief among indigenous communities that the administration's policy is a return to 'termination'.

Their Internet or Ours?Introduction to the April 21, 2018 issue of Other VoicesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018What happened to the Internet? The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?

Theorizing the Soviet BureaucracyReview of Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet BureaucracyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A review of the book: Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy by Thomas M. Twiss.

'They stole the beach' - the major mafia that almost nobody wants to talk aboutThe building boom in China and worldwide demand for consumer goods containing ilmenite has enriched criminals who specialise in stealing sanResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Increasing demand for sand has led to targeting of sandy beaches by organised crime. Community members who speak out or protest the destruction of beaches are often victims of intimidation, harrassment and violence.

This Is Why Carrots Cost More Than TwinkiesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018An examination of the role of Government-subsidized crop insurance, farm loans, tax credits, agricultural research and education, as well as environmental and public-health exemptions for farming, on the cost of food production and how that transfers to the consumer.

Though Invisible to Us, Our Dead Are Not AbsentResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A reminder that the world is a beautiful place, and we must save it by listening to the voices of those who have passed, who instilled us with life, love and the spirit of resistance.

Thousands march in Ukraine to mark Nazi collaborator Bandera's birthdayResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Some 6,500 people across Ukraine took part in marches on the first day of the year to mark the birthday of Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist leader considered a hero in the country despite his violent past and history of collaboration with the Nazis.

To overcome climate paralysis, unite for system changeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at how to break through the climate paralysis that has led to the environmental crisis that mankind is currently facing. Wallis indicates that by having identified who the enemy is, we know who our potential allies are- the other 99%.

To stop migration, stop the abuse of Africa's resourcesEurope should tackle migration not by deploying troops, but by curbing economic abuse and destablisation.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018On January 17, Italy's parliament approved the deployment of up to 470 troops in Niger to combat "irregular migrant flows" and the trafficking of people towards Libya, and, from there, to Europe. A number of other European countries are pursuing similar policies, including France, Germany, and Spain.

A Tool to Combat Washington's Middle East WarsBook review: "The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State have Conspired to Vilify Iran"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A Review of Dan Kovalik's book "The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State have Conspired to Vilify Iran", which provides a concise overview of US imperial conduct since WWII and the disturbing hypocrisy and deceit of the US Government and media.

Top 10 Civil-Rights SongsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Upon the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., some of the more popular civil-rights songs are remembered. The article includes online links to music videos.

Toronto does not need to hire more police officersResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018As you contemplate the push by the Toronto Police Association to have more police officers hired, remember that the issue is not the need for more officers, but featherbedding.

Toronto's film industry grows, but at what cost?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018While high profile film productions are increasing in Toronto, the article questions whether taxpayers are getting good value for the billions of dollars of public money being invested into the film industry's expansion in the city.

Toward a global strategic framework: The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 1)Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The revolutionary activists who founded the Communist International (Comintern) in 1919 had little contact with movements for national and colonial liberation outside Russia. Nonetheless, only a year later, in July 1920, the Comintern adopted a far-reaching strategy for national and social revolution in dependent countries, later termed the anti-imperialist united front.

Transformation Problem UnraveledBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Review of "Money and Totality: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marxs Logic in Capitaland the End of the 'Transformation Problem'" by Fred Moseley. Burkett provides a summary of the details of Moseley's theory.

The Trials of Africa and the Real Dr. King They Want Us to ForgetResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s views beyond those emphasized by the mainstream media, where he pushed beyond 'liberal' America and his strong anti-war and global solidarity values were unapologetically linked to the fight against racism and poverty.

Triumph and TragedyBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Le Blanc's sympathies with the Bolshevik project are clear, but this is no apologia. On the contrary, grounded in material and intellectual evidence, it is a work that helps us better understand the factors that shaped the choices the revolutionary leaders made and the alternatives paths that might have been open to them.

Trump & the Fed: US Shadow Bankers About to Deepen Control of US EconomyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018What's sometime referred to as 'shadow bankers' have been running the economy and drafting US domestic economic policy since Trump took office. 'Shadow' banks include such financial institutions as investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, insurance companies, finance companies, asset management companies, etc. They are outside the traditional commercial banking system (e.g. Chase, Bank of America, Wells, etc.) and virtually unregulated. Shadow banks globally now also control more investible liquid assets than do the world's commercial banks.

Trump, the NYPD and the People We Call 'Animals'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the reckless use and dissemination of de-humanizing pejorative language, notably by President Donald Trump and some police agencies in the United States, which has consequences for the public who interact with police and for society as a whole.

Trump and ScienceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Although Trump is called anti-science he simply continues a trend that started with Reagan. Calling him anti-science can mask how his policies and tactics are rational ideologies in the service of neoliberalism.

Trump threat to cut Palestine aid could 'unravel Oslo'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018US President Donald Trump's threat to withdraw aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) would deprive Washington of its influence on the body, and could cause the Oslo accords to unravel, analysts say.

Trump's Protectionism: A Great Leap BackwardResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018US Presidents, European leaders and their academic spokespeople have attributed China's growing market shares, trade surpluses and technological power to its "theft" of western technology, "unfair" or non-reciprocal trade and restrictive investment practices. President Trump has launched a 'trade war'  raising stiff tariffs, especially targeting Chinese exports  designed to pursue a protectionist economic regime.

Trump's War on Children is an act of State TerrorismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018State terrorism comes in many forms, but one of its most cruel and revolting expressions is when it is aimed at children. The Trump administration has detained more than 2,000 children, and the numbers are expected to grow exponentially in light of Trump's refusal to change the cruel policy.

The Truth About "Trailer Trash"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018"Trailer trash" remains one of the last unquestioned relics of political incorrectness in our nation. As a toxic slur, the "trailer trash" brand works to stigmatize an entire category of people marginalizing them from mainstream society.

'A Turtle is Worth More Alive Than Dead'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Various participants at the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in Kenya discuss ways they can sustainably economically benefit from the local environment.

Twitter closes down my account for 'hateful conduct'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Several Twitter accounts with pro-Palestinian content have been suspended. At the same time those making explicit threats against them have been found not to violate Twitter's terms of service.

2018: When Orwell's 1984 Stopped Being FictionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A commentary on The Guardian's news story "Revealed: UK's push to strengthen anti-Russia alliance". Cook questions facts and the terminology used in the Guardian article, a form of 'journalistic fraud', which promotes the UK government's policy towards Russia.

Typewriters Still Smoking? An Interview with Underground Press Maven John McMillanResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018An Interview with Underground Press Maven John McMillan, who is an associate professor of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta, with degrees from Michigan State and Columbia, and the author of the best book about the underground press. Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America (Oxford University Press)

Uber? Taxis? Or Plan C? How to Get Ride Hailing RightBC could show the world a non-profit model that beats oligopoliesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at 'ride-hailing' and why it should be run on a non-profit basis as a co-op or other non-profit model.

Unions Should Go Big on a Green New Deal for CanadaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Canada's unions need to play a much larger leadership role on climate change, not just because it deals with economic policies directly affecting members but also because it will be difficult to get where we need to go without them.

The Unjust Prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation FiveResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Miko Peled, in "Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five," his exhaustive study of the U.S. government's case against five defendants from a friendless minority, demonstrates how American justice has deviated so far from Blackstone that the courts can convict a hundred innocents for one who is guilty.

Unprecedented Cruelty Against Immigrants and Their ChildrenResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Recently White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly backed up the policy when he explained that, "the children will be put in foster care or whatever." This comes at the same time as a new report revealed that there are some 1,500 undocumented children, who have been placed by federal authorities in homes of "sponsors," and are now missing in the system.No other country has a policy of separating families who intend to seek asylum.

An Unrepentant '68er's LifeBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Review of an autobiographical book by May 1968 figure Daniel Bensaïd.

UNRWA Does not Perpetuate the Conflict, the Conflict Perpetuates UNRWAResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In January, without warning, Donald Trump refsued to pay $305 million of his country's $365 million commitment to UNRWA. UNRWA, the UN agency serving Palestinian refugees, remains $200 million short of the funds it needs to provide humanitarian services for five million people, including 2/3 of the population of the Gaza Strip.This is not really a story about under-funding UNRWA. This is about the people who strenuously seek to eliminate it.

Up Against the Ivy Wall: the Columbia Insurrection at 50Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018"My plan was to major in English and become a professor," she writes in an essay titled "Stopping the Machine" that's collected in A Time to Stir: Columbia '68, a new 438-page book (Columbia, $35) which is edited by filmmaker Paul Cronin. Rosahn explains that at the start of the protests, she was a "leftish Democrat" and that in the course of the rebellion she became "a devoted student radical."

An Updated and Improved MarxismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018An article that criticizes the stubborn immersion in the past by current Marxists and left wing intellectuals, and to comprehend activism and set goals in the twenty-first century requires a revision of the Marxian conception of revolution.

An Urban Teacher Union EpicBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Swerdlow reviews A Fight for the Soul of Public Education: The Story of the Chicago Teachers Strike. She suggests that the 2012 Chicago teachers strike can be used as a model to persuade the public that public employees and their labour organizations benefit society and lead to effetive change.

Ursula K. Le Guin - Rest in PowerResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Obituary celebrating Le Guin's contributions as a community activist, a fighter for feminism, peace, freedom of speech, access to knowledge for everyone, and radical democracy in addition to her literary acclaim.

US bombs continue to kill in Laos 50 years after Vietnam WarUS dropped two million tonnes of bombs on Laos at height of Vietnam War. Why are cluster munitions still killing?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at the problem of unexploded US bombs in Laos which have killed tens of thousands of people since the end of the war, and continue to kill and maim dozens annually.

US Isn't Leaving Syria -- but Media Lost It When Possibility Was RaisedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The US military exists to fight wars. It is the most heavily armed, most violent organization in the world. Saying that it should continue to occupy Syria, and most of the mainstream media do, is a way of saying that the war in that country should continue. In fact, its a call for escalation of that war.

US J20 defendants: 'Waiting is part of the punishment'The first six people have been acquitted, but the 188 remaining Inauguration Day defendants have yet to go to trial.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Alleged anti-fascist protestors, controversially arrested at the 2017 US presidential inauguration, await trial and or sentencing in 2018.

US plastic waste is causing global environmental crisisResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A recent ban in China, which normally takes in the largest proportion of US plastic waste, has left the US dumping plastic in other over-burdened countries, while waste still continues to pile up in the States. US plastic scrap exports dropped by almost a third in the first six months of 2018, as waste firms struggled to find a home for their plastic scrap.

US, UK and France 'Inflicted Worst Destruction in Decades on Raqqa'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Amnesty International reports that air and artillery strikes by the US and allies inflicted devastating loss of life on civilians in the Isis-held city of Raqqa. It is a report that contradicts claims by the US, Britain and France, that they precisely targeted Isis fighters and positions during the four month siege.

Venezuela: Maduro survives assassination attempt -- but journalism doesn'tResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Venezuela was rocked on August 5, 2018 by an attempt to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro during a public event, using drones armed with explosives.But as more details of the attack became available, mainstream media coverage sought to sow doubt on the events, using words such as "apparent" or "alleged". It focused on the government using this "alleged" event to step up repression.

A very British coup: The spies who went out to the coldResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Former British MP George Galloway comments on the revelation that subcontracted work from MI5 and MI6 targeted not only Russia but also smeared British politicians whom they perceived to be "pro-Russian"; those smeared include not only himself but Jeremy Corbyn and others in his party.

Viktor Orban, Trump and the Populist Battle Over Public SpaceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The Hungarian legislation and the turmoil caused by Trump's moral equivalencies reveal how politicized space is not a distracting side effect of populist politics; rather, public space treated as a symbol of national identity is a defining characteristic of populism.

The voice of HobsbawmResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at how the work and ideas of influential British Historian Eric Hobsbawm made an entry into the Indian intellectual scene, as well as his involvement in two crucial political and intellectual debates in Brazil that cemented his reputation there.

Want to Fix Foster Care? Ask Kids Who Have Been Through the SystemInnovative report co-researched by youth from care focuses on importance of relationshipsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A report called Relationships Matter for Youth "Aging Out" of Care, co-researched by youth from care, focuses on what truly matters to the young people who are in the system and notably on the importance of building relationships.

The War Against "Fake News" is a War on Us Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Barely a day passes without a new development in the war on social media -- that is, the war on us. Today, it is a report that Twitter has emailed hundreds of thousands of its users, warning them that they shared "Russian propaganda".

War, lies and censorshipResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Damon cautions news consumers that there is precedent for dissemination of government propaganda in the Anglo-American mainstream media when leaders are preparing to take part in military action.

Washington using legal cover to conceal economic banditryResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The arrest of a Chinese telecom executive in Canada on behalf of the US is an abuse of the legal process and international law to pursue American economic interests. China's anger resonates with similar grievances against the US felt by Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and even American allies in Europe.

West's failure to act will be cause of the next Gaza massacre Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Jewish Israelis celebrate, and governments around the world stand by passively, as Israel massacres Palestinians in Gaza. Inaction by Western governments ensures that Israel will feel embolded to commit further massacres in the future.

What are we eating?Introduction to Other Voices, January 21, 2018Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else. For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?

What Fascism is, and Isn'tResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018By examining historicial fascist movements, Oppenheimer delineates what is and isn't fascism and also explores the common themes between the alt-right and its fascist predecessors.

"What followed horrified us beyond our wildest imaginations": an eyewitness account of the Bangladesh student protestsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Like other high school students, Abdul Karim Rajib, 18, and Dia Khanam Mim, 17 had many hopes and dreams for their lives. One had hoped to become an army officer, the other, a banker. On July 29, 2018, around noon, the two teenagers were killed in the streets of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, by three buses speeding against each other for no reason other than to arrive first and cram as many passengers into their already overcrowded interiors, for maximum profit.

What if Ida B. Wells Depended on Facebook?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The work of Ida B. Wells, the crusading journalist who forced Americans to pay attention to lynchings and human rights abuses, is a reminder why we need a tax-dollars-funded, and journalism focused, commitment to public media.

What is Organizing?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Morgan reviews the history of Organizing in the USA and provides advice to activists on how to organize in an inclusive, constructive, way.

What the Attack on Marc Lamont Hill Tells UsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Destruction is the Zionists' strategic goal and the attack on Marc Lamont Hill and others like him is dictated by the tactics they have chosen to use toward that end.

What's it like for a social movement to take control of a city?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Ada Colau surprised many when she won the election to become mayor of Barcelona. The housing rights activist was part of a deep social movement aiming for participatory democracy. But this latest article from the Symbiosis Research Collective examines how winning the election was just the first step

What's Kinder Morgan's Real End Game?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018An ultimatum has been imposed by Texas based Energy Infrastructure company, Kinder Morgan,that they will cancel the Trans Mountain Pipeline Extension at the end of May 2018 unless clarity is provided by the government. Klein argues that Kinder Morgan knows that the pipeline is already doomed, due to external economic factors and Indigenous opposition.

When America Downed an Iranian Airliner and Celebrated It!Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Every 3rd of July Iranians commemorate the killing of 299 innocent people, including 66 children, by the US Navy. Adding to the tragedy is the American attitude towards this catastrophic event.

When Worse is the Enemy of BadResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The claim that all that is wrong with America is due to the malignant machinations of Putin is the most blatantly false, potentially disastrous bucket of bullshit ever inflicted by the matrix on this ignorant, credulous, propagandized people.

Where Have All the Nazis Gone?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Thousands of "anti-fascist" protestors converged on the streets of the nation's capitol to deny a platform to (or just beat the snot out of) twenty or thirty racist idiots who were trying to assemble in Lafayette Square and stand around shouting racist slogans at each other.

Where It All Began: The Dawn of 'Fake News'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018While today's political smear campaigns and propaganda have gotten more sophisticated and subtle, the underlying ethics remain as maggoty as ever.

Where to Begin?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The rise of socialist-identified candidates like Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez are a hopeful resistance against the politics that resulted in President Trump. But people must organize outside of electoral politics to bring real change.

Who Killed Marielle?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Marielle Franco, a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman, whose murder is still unsolved, was a thorn in the side of the right-wing, repressive government. The fight she fought continues through with people people she represented.

Who profits from keeping Gaza on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe?Keeping Gaza on the verge of collapse keeps international humanitarian aid money flowing to exactly where it benefits Israeli interests.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Economic researcher and journalist, Shir Hever shows that Israel benefits economically from its siege and oppression of Gaza.

Who's Funding the White Helmets?Reality CheckResource Type: Film/VideoFirst Published: 2018You've no doubt heard of the White Helmets, aka the Syria Civil Defense. They claim to be a neutral entity in Syria. They say they are just helping people caught in the middle of a civil war. But are they? Follow the money and you will find numerous ties to government funding from not only the U.S., but the U.K., Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. We untangle these ties to the White Helmets in a Reality Check you won't get anywhere else.

Why "Coercive Diplomacy" is a Dangerous FarceOffering to talk while threatening military force hasn't worked in 30 years.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In the context of rising tensions between the USA and North Korea 2017-2018, historian and journalist Gareth Porter, details the history of failure of "Coercive Diplomacy" as a tool in US foreign policy.

Why does the language of journalism fail indigenous people?A journalist with indigenous roots reflects on the making of We Are Still Here: A Story from Native Alaska.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A journalist with Indigenous roots reflects on the difficulty of doing justice to the community she is filming a documentary about. Historical misrepresentation due to lack of cross-cultural understanding has led to a distrust of the media.

Why Is Allergan Partnering with the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe?Inside the bizarre world of patent law.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has invested in a portfolio of patents, their status as a soverign-entity allows the holder to circumvent the "inter partes review" if a patent dispute is raised, increasing the value of their holdings.

Why is Inclusive Mosque so Afraid of Secularism?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Secularism is merely a framework that separates religion from the state to ensure that religion cannot influence the state and public policy and impose itself on private lives. After all, not everyone in a given society is a believer and even if they are, they dont usually want the state to tell them how to believe. Only a secular framework can ensure the equal rights of all citizens before the law and not different rights for different categories of communalised groups. It is only a secular framework that can ensure one law for all via changeable laws made by people versus unchangeable divine laws imposed by clerics. It is a secular framework which can allow for multi-ethnic, multi-religious and plural societies and is a minimum precondition for the rights of women and minorities. It is a secular framework that can ensure freedom of conscience, including freedom of and from religion.

Why It Just Makes Sense for the U.S. to Withdraw from the UNHRCResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Having withdrawn from the Paris Accord, and the Iran deal; having broken with the world to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital; having provoked allies and rivals with trade war-triggering tariffs and personal insults; having shocked the world with talk of a Great Wall to keep out Mexicans (paid for by Mexico).

Why Ocasio-Cortez's Platform is So GreatResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018By labeling her foreign policy platform "A Peace Economy," Ocasio-Cortez, using a phrase popular with the peace movement, makes the financial connection without shying away from the immoral and criminal and counter-productive character of war. The fact is that war endangers rather than protecting, erodes rights, militarizes police and society, destroys the natural environment, directly kills and injures and traumatizes and harms millions, and - on top of that - does the most damage through the diversion of resources from where they could do good.

Why the food movement needs to understand capitalismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018To fully appreciate the challenges we face in transforming our food system we need to explore the economic and political context in which food is grown, sold and consumed in the world today.

Why white supremacists and Hindu nationalists are so alikeWhite supremacy and Hindu nationalism have common roots going back to the 19th-century idea of the 'Aryan race'.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Many members of the so-called "alt-right" - a loosely knit coalition of populists, white supremacists, white nationalists and neo-Nazis - turned to India to find historic and current justifications for their racist, xenophobic and divisive views.

Will The Conspiracy Against Trump and American Democracy Go Unpunished?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The American people do not realize the seriousness of the Russiagate conspiracy against them and President Trump. Polls indicate that a large majority of the public do not believe that Trump conspired with Putin to steal the presidential election, and are tired of hearing the media prostitutes repeat the absurd story day after day. On its face the story makes no sense whatsoever.

Will We Ever See Al Jazeera's Investigation Into the Israel Lobby?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018So when am I going to be able to watch Al Jazeera's hard-hitting investigation into Israels powerful lobby in the United States? Remember Al Jazeera? The tough, no-holds-barred Middle East satellite channel that transformed Qatar into a media empire whose reports frightened dictators and infuriated potentates and presidents alike? Why, George W Bush once wanted to bomb its headquarters in Doha  so it must have been doing something right. It even has an office in Jerusalem.

William ('Bill') Pelz:Againist the Current vol. 192Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018In memoriam, Patrick M. Quinn and Eric Schuster discuss the life and contributions of William ('Bill') Pelz, a well-known socialist activist and prolific scholar in the field of European and comparative Labour History.

William Blum: Anti-Imperial AdvocateResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018The late William Blum, former computer programmer in the US State Department and initial enthusiast for US moral crusades, who died December 2018, gave us various exemplars of this counter-insurgent scholarship. His compilation of foreign policy ills in Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, was written with the US as sole surveyor of the land, all powerful and dangerously uncontained.

Women in the Black Panther PartyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018While much that has been written about the Black Panther Party (BPP) is focused on the role of certain prominent male leaders, lesser known is that during peak membership women made up nearly two-thirds of the party. Leela Yellessety spoke to three authors of recent books that highlight the contribution of women in the Black Panther Party.

Working Class Movement Must Be IndependentResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A new chapter in the history of the South African working class was opened in Soweto on 21-22 July 2018, when representatives from over 147 South African working-class formations represented by 1000 delegates assembled to unite workplace and community struggles.

The World Google Controls and Surveillance CapitalismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Google's encroaching powers over our lives, to include the freedom of expression protected by most national laws, not to mention EU and UN Charters, around the planet today.

World War I: Crime and PunishmentResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Jacques Pauwels' The Great Class War is a contribution to the ideological front in the struggle for a world without wars, for in resetting the story of that war in the Marxist frame, he loosens our ties to idealist interpretations that obscure the class nature of wars, naturalize war as an inevitable part of life, and force us to assume and share a guilt that largely rests on the shoulders of a profiteering and exploitative class, which holds the power of decision making through its control of political, economic, military, police, and media powers and grants us a vote that is largely cosmetic.

Worldwide "Moment of Madness"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A look at 1968 a legendary year in history. Analysis of how student- and worker-led revolts played out in different parts of Europe.

Worldwide Wobblies RememberedBook reviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018A review of the essay collection Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW.

The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the MediaResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2018The Wrong Story lays bare the flaws in the way large media organizations present the PalestineIsrael issue. It points out major fallacies in the fundamental conceptions that underpin their coverage, namely that Palestinians and Israelis are both victims to comparable extents and are equally responsible for the failure to find a solution; that the problem is "extremists," often religiously-motivated ones, who need to be sidelined in favour of moderates; and that Israels uses of force are typically justifiable acts of self-defense.Weaving together the existing literature with new insights, Shupak offers an up-to-date and tightly focused guide that exposes the distorted way these issues are presented and why each is misguided.

Yanis Varoufakis's Self-Incriminating Account of the Greek Crisis - Parts 3 and 4Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Yanis Varoufakis traces his collaboration with Alexis Tsípras and his alter ego, Nikos Pappas, back to 2011. That collaboration gradually broadened, starting with 2013, to include Yanis Dragasakis (who became vice-Prime Minister in 2015). There is a constant in the relations between Varoufakis and Tsípras: Yanis Varoufakis constantly argues for changes in the political programme that Syriza had adopted. Varoufakis tells us that Tsípras-Pappas-Dragasakis themselves clearly wanted to move toward an orientation that was different from, and significantly more moderate than, the one their party had adopted.

Yemen's TurnResource Type: UnclassifiedFirst Published: 2018The Arab Spring, numerically strong but politically weak, failed to break this destructive dynamic. With the corpse of Arab nationalism in a state of advanced decay and the principal opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood, desperate for a deal with Washington, the 2011 uprisings were easily confiscated by the US to further its own aims in the region. Despite its many national peculiarities, the ruinous war in Yemen has to be viewed in this context.

You Can't Commit Genocide Without the Help of Local PeopleResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018How do you organise a successful genocide  in Turkish Armenia a century ago, in Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1940s, or in the Middle East today? A remarkable investigation by a young Harvard scholar  focusing on the slaughter of Armenians in a single Turkish Ottoman city 103 years ago  suggests the answer is simple: a genocidal government must have the local support of every branch of respectable society: tax officials, judges, magistrates, junior police officers, clergymen, lawyers, bankers and, most painfully, the neighbours of the victims.

Young protesters are defying Israel's blockade with scraps of paper and plasticResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2018Five years ago, the film Flying Paper documented the successful efforts of Gazas children to set a new world record for mass kite-flying. The children defied Israels blockade, which prevents entry of most goods, by making kites from sticks, newspapers and scraps of plastic.

2017

Abbas fears the Prisoners' Hunger StrikeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is due to meet Donald Trump to discuss reviving the long-cold corpse of the peace process. Back home, things are heating up. There is anger in the West Bank, both on the streets and within the ranks of Abbas's Fatah movement. The trigger is a hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners.

The Absurd Consequences of a "Right to Privacy"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017British MP David Daviss text messages poking fun at the appearance of a female colleague make him the latest whipping boy for those determined to root out sexism and misogyny in public life, the Daily Mail reports. Curiously, they also make him the latest poster boy for exponents of an expansive "right to privacy."

Academe's Poisonous Call-Out CultureResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017I cannot help thinking that something has gone seriously wrong when a scholar who is not transphobic or working against the interests of trans people, but, in fact, considering an important question, is labeled as "doing harm."

Academic Bullying the Vacuum of Moral Leadership in the AcademyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Workplace bullying is an increasing problem. Books are being written about it, and there is even a Workplace Bullying Institute. The problem isn't restricted to the business world. Books such as Faculty Incivility: The Rise of the Academic Bully Culture and What to Do About It, Bully in the Ivory Tower: How Aggression and Incivility Erode American Higher Education, and Workplace Bullying in Higher Education suggest that bullying is a particular problem among academics.

Actually, I Am Anti-PoliceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The I'm not anti-police stance would work if, and only if, police brutality could be separated from the nature of policing. But it can't. That's because the major purpose of policing is to maintain the supremacy of the ruling class.

African Migrants Bought and Sold Openly in 'Slave Markets' in LibyaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Hundreds of migrants along North African migration routes are being bought and sold openly in modern day 'slave markets' in Libya, survivors have told the United Nations migration agency, which warned that these reports "can be added to a long list of outrages" in the country.

Aliens, Antisemitism, and AcademiaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Criticizing Enlightenment thought has become fashionable across the political spectrum. For the past several decades, more and more academics have called reason into question. This is especially true among left-leaning, postmodern, and post-structuralist thinkers. This coincides with one of the Alt-Rights primary tactics: adopting leftist rhetoric as cover for its racialist, nativist, and often misogynistic agendas.

Allegations Against Russia Less Credible Every DayResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Swanson calls into question the US government-driven media accusations that the Russian government had direct involvement in swaying the 2016 US election for Trump, and exames the motivations behind these claims.

American Rape of Vietnamese Women was Considered "Standard Operating Procedure"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Comparing testimony from Vietnamese women and American soldiers, Gina Marie Weaver, in her book Ideologies of Forgetting: Rape in The Vietnam War, finds that rape of Vietnamese women by American troops during the US invasion of Vietnam was a "widespread", "everyday occurrence" that was essentially "condoned", even encouraged, by the military, and had its foundation in military training and US culture.

Amid the Tumult in DurhamResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Peter Gilbert (a rights attorney) and his wife Elena Everett,a non-profit organizer, had their house searched by Sheriff's officers in Durham when nobody was at home. It had to do with a demonstration of some 200 on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017.

Analyzing the Failures of SyrizaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Examines the failture of Syriza, The Coalition of the Radical Left, since their election in Greece.

Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in SyriaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The U.S. government and the mainstream media have rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities, reports Robert Parry.

Another Housing Bubble?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017This is an edited transcript from an interview on The Real News Network. Sharmini Peries interviewed Michael Hundson (author of J is For Junk Economics).

Another peace activist, Raza Khan, goes missing in LahoreResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Raza Mahmood Khan, a Peace activist and social worker, went "missing" in Lahore on Dec. 2, 2017, shortly after he had organised a public discussion about a recent demonstration that ended in ignominious surrender to those seeking power in the guise of religion.

Anthem Protestors Should Stop Mucking Around and Make Their DemandsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The "anthem protests" have gone on for two years now, but so far the players have not presented a specific set of demands.Why? Do the players simply want to use Sunday football as a platform for raising awareness of racial injustice and police brutality or is there something else going on here?

The Anti-Empire Report #153Cold War Number One: 70 years of daily national stupidity. Cold War Number Two: Still in its youth, but just asResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A comentary on current events in Russian and US relations which may be entering a new Cold War, as well as a look back at events through the Cold War period from 1948 to the 1980's.

Anti-Racism at the Neighbourhood LevelResource Type: AudioFirst Published: 2017On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Rabea Murtaza, a member of East Enders Against Racism, a neighbourhood-based anti-racism group in Toronto. Podcast and article.

The Anti-Fascist RevolutionRemembering the Action Party, one of Italy's biggest anti-fascist partisan movements.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Over the last two decades, the Italian Resistance has been a subject of sharp public debate, with both political and historical efforts "radically to repudiate the role and significance" of anti-fascism in Italy's contemporary history. As Pier Giorgio Zunino wrote in 1997, "for the Italian history of the second half of the twentieth century, anti-fascism is the villain."

Antifa in Theory and in PracticeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In recent weeks, a totally disoriented left has been widely exhorted to unify around a masked vanguard calling itself Antifa, for anti-fascist. Hooded and dressed in black, Antifa is essentially a variation of the Black Bloc, familiar for introducing violence into peaceful demonstrations in many countries. Imported from Europe, the label Antifa sounds more political. American Antifa looks very much like a middle class wedding between Identity Politics and gang warfare.

Antifa in Theory and in PracticeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A masked vanguard calling itself Antifa, for anti-fascist, is just a variation of the Black Bloc, which is familiar for introducing violence into peaceful demonstrations in many countries. Imported from Europe, the label Antifa serves the purpose of stigmatizing those it attacks as "fascists", yet despite its imported name Antifa in the U.S. is basically just another example of America's steady descent into violence.

Antifa is a 'major gift to the rightWorld-renowned academic prompts criticism for his comments about the anti-fascist movement in the wake of CharlottesvilleResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In the wake of the violent protests in Charlottesville and tension between white supremacists and anti-fascists, Noam Chomsky condemns Antifa militant tactics and suggests constructive activism based in education is more effective.

Anti-Vax Propaganda Helps Measles -- Once Eradicated -- Spread Across the Twin CitiesHealth officials expect the number of diagnoses to rise.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The anti-vaxxer misinformation campaign has led to yet another outbreak of a preventable disease. Minnesota's Department of Health has announced that 44 people in the state have been diagnosed with measles, a disease once eradicated in the United States. Forty-two of the cases are in children, most of them Somali-Americans who were never vaccinated. According to numerous sources, the outbreak is the result of a sustained anti-vaccination campaign.

Antiwar.com vs. the Decline of American JournalismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017What is the "alternative" media? If we look at the phrase itself, it seems to mean the media that presents itself as the alternative to what we call the "corporate media," i.e. the New York Times, the Washington Post, your local rag  in short, the Legacy Media that predominated in those bygone days before the Internet. And yet this whole arrangement seems outdated, to say the least. The Internet has long since been colonized by the corporate giants: BuzzFeed, for example, is regularly fed huge dollops of cash from its corporate owners. And the Legacy Media has adapted to the primacy of online media, however reluctantly and ineptly. So the alternative media isnt defined by how they deliver the news, but rather by 1) what they judge to be news, and 2) how they report it. And thats the problem.

Archives As ActivismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Last week was archives awareness week in Ontario, a week to raise awareness about what archivists do, what archives are, and just generally celebrate all of the good stuff associated with archives. In addition to general archives promotion this week it is also about the connection between archives and activism.

Are They Really Out to Get Trump?Sometimes paranoia is justifiedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017 Published: 2917President Donald Trump and the firing of FBI Director Comey

As the World Turned Upside DownLeft Intellectuals in Yugoslavia, 1988-90Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An account of the author's experiences and reflections meeting left intellectuals, primarily during conferences in Yugoslavia between 1988 and 1990.

The assassination of the Rosselli brothersResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A summary of the ideology and actions of Carlo and Nello Rosselli, highlighting what led up to their assassinations and its aftermath.

Assuming BoycottResistance, Agency, and Cultural Production Resource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017A collection of essays and seminars that looks at the history of boycott and divestment within activism. Examines a variety of cultural and academic boycotts around the world.

The Attack on Al JazeeraResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Since its genesis, Al-Jazeera has served as much more than a mere signpost of speech or thought... popular or otherwise. Its existence, alone, stands as a safety valve against those closed societies that embrace repression as so much a check against the light of day of which they fear. Al-Jazeera's availability throughout the Middle East changed its information landscape ... introducing a level of freedom of speech, on TV, that was previously unheard of in the region.

Attica: The Revolt and AfterwardsBlood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Heather Ann Thompson's Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.

Awake, A Dream from Standing RockResource Type: Film/VideoFirst Published: 2017Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock captures the story of Native-led defiance that forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet.

The Bait and Switch of Public-Private PartnershipsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017This being the age of public relations, the genteel term "public-private partnership" is used instead of corporate plunder. A "partnership" such deals may be, but it isn't the public who gets the benefits.

The Balance of ProbabilitiesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Unlike the famous chemical weapons "attack" portrayed by the BBC in Saving Syria's Children, it does appear that in the latest incident at Idlib there was real horror inflicted by chemical attack of some kind. The question is who did it and why?

Banned Love: Trump, Pocahantas and the LovingsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The author looks at the history of interracial relationships, from thier legalization 50 years ago, to their future during the Trump administration.

The BDS movement is about justice for PalestineResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The University of Ottawa Israeli Awareness Committee (IAC) blocked a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) resolution presented by the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO). The BDS movement is a call to action from Palestinians seeking justice and equality, while the IAC is a pro-Israel lobby group which works with the Israeli Embassy and others to promote the Israeli government to students.

Beautiful RisingCreative Resistance from the Global South Resource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017Follow up to 'Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution', Beautiful Rising showcases some of the most innovative tactics used in struggles against autocracy and austerity across the Global South.

BequestsLeaving a social justice legacyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Many of us have made working for social justice a lifetime commitment. If you are thinking about leaving a legacy for social justice that will live on, you might want to consider leaving a bequest to Connexions in your will.

A Better World in BirthThe Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to NowResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Michael A. Lebowitz' The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now.

Beware the Poisoned ChaliceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In the aftermath of the recent (2017) UK election Jeremy Corbyn may be well poised to form a Labour government. But there would be huge risks in assuming office in a context of economic chaos.

Beyond Neoliberal Identity PoliticsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Neoliberal identity politics (NIP) is a great weapon on the hands of the privileged capitalist Few and their mass-murderous global empire.

Big Business and HitlerResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017This book discusses the multiple multinationals doing business with Germany during the Second World War, including American companies such as General Motors, IBM, Standard Oil and Ford, which may explain America's late entry into the war and Hitler's support from powerful businesses despite the horrendous actions of the Nazis'.

Big city war: NATO seeks concepts for waging urban conflictResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017NATO is asking outside contractors to pitch concepts on military operations in urban areas, admitting that the blocs forces are still unprepared for waging wars in big cities, including those lying close to the coast.

Biological Warfare: US & Saudis Use Cholera to Kill YemenisResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The US has supported Saudi Arabia and its allies in their aggression against Yemen, committing daily war crimes involving civilians, who are now suffering a cholera epidemic with more than 400,000 victims.

The Birth of a HolidayThe late Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm recounts the origins of International Workers' Day.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The history of the fight, by the working class, for a holiday for the working class.

Birth of a New MovementResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017I came back from the Women's March in D.C. exhausted but thrilled, convinced that we are seeing the birth of a new women's movement. Hearing about all the other Women's Marches around the world only confirmed that impression.

Black and WhiteImages from the Archives of Liberation News Service Photographer Howard Epstein, 1968-1974Resource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017Black and White is a book of 32 evocative images of political conflict and confrontations in the streets taken by Howard Epstein when he was a photographer for Liberation News Service.

A Blaze in a Desert: Selected PoemsResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017Like Serge's extraordinary novels, A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems bears witness to decades of revolutionary upheavals in Europe and the advent of totalitarian rule; many of the poems were written during the "immense shipwreck" of Stalin's ascendancy.

The Blue-Collar Hellscape of the Startup IndustryResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The tactics and work environments at tech companies, including Amazon, show a disregard for the fundamental health, safety and humanity of low-tier workers, demonstrating what laissez-faire startup-styled late capitalism really looks like.

Blueprint for a Progressive US: A Dialogue With Noam Chomsky and Robert PollinResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In the Trump era, what would an authentically populist, progressive political agenda look like? What would a progressive US look like with regard to jobs, the environment, finance capital and the standard of living? What would it look like in terms of education and health care, justice and equality? In an exclusive interview with C.J. Polychroniou for Truthout, world-renowned public intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin tackle these issues.

The Bolsheviks and AntisemitismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Antisemitism was found across the political divide in Russia's year of revolution.

Borneo: Island Devastated, People ObliviousResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Borneo is now synonymous with mining and logging, as well as with terrible plantations that have already cannibalized most of the land. Nothing is being produced, but everything has been extracted.

Bouncing Back Against the Corruption of Science in Capitalist SocietyPart 2 of a 2-part series: The Role of Science in Capitalist Society and Social ChangeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Part two in a look at capitalism and the role of science, and the strong evidence that science can be on the side of social justice and social change.

Bounty HuntersA clandestine war on wolvesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The centuries old killing of wolves has extirpated the species throughout most of the United States, yet there remains a strong anti-wolf lobby which continues to threaten even a modest recovery.

Brazil: Amazon's Indians, rainforest under attackResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Attacks on Amazon Indians and on their land rights threaten vital areas of rainforest. FUNAI, the agency responsible for safeguarding indigenous tribes is being forced to withdraw due to underfunding, while Indians' attempts to assert their rights are met with state violence.

The Breaking Of The Corporate Media MonopolyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Alternative articles are being shared more widely online than the views of mainstream newspaper commentators. Discussed in relation to 2017 UK election.

A Brief History of Mass Theft Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The process by which communal land and resources are appropriated by private wealth (or capital), and people are robbed of their self-sufficiency and thereby forced into a position where they have to sell their labour in order to survive, is called Primitive Accumulation. Today we might call this Privatisation, or in plain-speaking, Mass-Theft.The entire process of mass-theft took centuries to carry out in Western Europe and is often difficult to grasp in its entirety.

The British CampsThough it reached its horrific heights at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the British, not the Nazis, pioneered the concentration camp.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Today, the expression "concentration camp" evokes the horrors of Nazi Germany, conjuring up black-and-white images of Auschwitz and Belsen. But Germans were neither the first nation to make use of concentration camps nor the last.

Broadband monopolies to censor Internet contentBehind the FCC plan to abolish net neutralityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The recently released plan by the American Federal Communications Commission to abolish net neutrality has evoked mass opposition across the US and around the world.

Broken HomesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In East Jerusalem, home to 300,000 Palestinians, Israel has been using home demolition as a tool to control the population. Following what some have described as a "third Intifada" in 2015, Al Jazeera started monitoring the policy of home demolitions in occupied East Jerusalem and how it was being enforced -- 2016 was documented to be a record year. Al Jazeera presents an extensive month by month report with graphs, video and photographs.

Call Center Unions Build International Connections Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017One big issue in the three-day strike by 38,000 AT&T workers was the company's offshoring of jobs. To shine a spotlight on the issue and strengthen international solidarity, a group of union members visited the Dominican Republic a couple of weeks before the strike to meet the call center workers on the other end of that offshoring.

Canada's Impossible AcknowledgmentResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its final report in 2015 with ninety-four calls to action, and renewed hope that the nation would finally confront its darkest history with tangible action. This article looks at why this process has yet again stalled, one which repeats the cycle of promises and yet again does not deliver.

Canada's State of ReconciliationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The brutal suppression of water protectors at Standing Rock, North Dakota and their ongoing resistance has also galvanized Canadian conversations about Indigenous land rights and environmental welfare.

The Canadian Left and IsraelResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Accusations of Left anti-Semitism may mask a more significant racism problem on the Left.

The Cancer in Blue: Cop DocumentariesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017John Ridely's film "Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992" is a 144-minute kaleidoscope of interviews and television news footage that climaxes in the riots that followed the acquittal of four cops who were captured on home video by a man named George Holliday as they were beating Rodney King with steel batons.

Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of CapitalResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A review of Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason Moore. The author examines how capitalism is innately destructive of its environment, but the solution is revolutionary socialist organisation says Graham-Leigh.

The Case for Haitian ReparationsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A history of France's exploitation of colonial Haiti, the aftermath of Haiti's independence, and the lasting social and environmental impacts, arguing for Haiti's recent demands of reparations from the French government.

Catalonia: The Revolt of the Rich?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Catalonian rebellion, similar to Scottish separatism, is an uprising of the rich against the poor, the protests of a liberal society against the remnants of a redistributive social state.

The Censorious Vortex of the "Flash News" BaronsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017For decades, the factors that decided what noteworthy stories would not find their way into print or on the air came down to the media's ignorance, laziness or from advertising restraints. For too long, the explosive material for good journalism in these and other areas had remained hidden in plain sight.

Changing minds on a changing climateWhat Makes Climate Science Deniers Change Their Minds? Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Reddit commenters point to reasons they went from being climate contrarians to having confidence in mainstream climate science.

Chicago Teachers Settle ContractResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017While an almost 3-1 vote in favor is decisive, the vote against is significant in showing both dissatisfaction and anger among teachers. Who voted against the contract?

Child Soldiers Reloaded: The Privatisation of WarResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A look at private military companies, a multibillion-dollar industry, and how they recruit former child soldiers for military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Includes a link to the film by Mads Ellesoe.

China Widens its Silk Road to the WorldResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017China's new 'Silk Road' initiative is a large-scale, multilateral development Asian project which has the potential to change the shape of the world economy.

China's Ancient Labor PartyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Mozi was an outstanding thinker and what is more a militant, grounded on a well-defined program, who fought on behalf of the toilers in ancient China.

Chinese neocolonialism in AfricaThe Dragon eating the African Lion and Cheetah? (Part I)Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017China has literally invaded Africa with its investors, traders, lenders, builders, developers, labourers and who knows what else. The fancy phrase for that is win-win cooperation. The "cooperation" has opened up Africa as a source of raw materials for China and a dumping ground for cheap Chinese manufactured goods. It is Chinese neocolonialism.

Choices Facing African AmericansResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017For African Americans, this campaign against Russia (and North Korea, Iran) is a diversion from more central issues including the right to vote.

CIA Chief Declares War on TruthResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Mike Pompeo made it clear that he has little regard for truth, for personal decency, or for the Constitutional protections for free speech or for the free exercise of religion. It was an altogether chilling debut for a spy agency head in a country that still imagines itself enjoying some basic freedoms.

The CIA in UkraineResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Edited excerpt from "The CIA as Organized Crime", by Douglas Valentine, detailing the CIA's activities in Ukraine and influence on political movements there.

The CIA Reads French TheoryOn the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural LeftResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A recently unclassifed CIA documents reveals that in the 1980s, the agency had its analysts devote substantial time and resources to studying trends in French theory, and specifically, the work that writers like Michel Foucault, Jacques, and Roland Barthes were doing in undermining the Marxist left. The CIA saw this trend as beneficial to the maintenance of American power, and capitalism generally, because it undermind the idea that there could or should be fundamental revolutionary change.

The CIA's 60-Year History of Fake News: How the Deep State Corrupted Many American WritersResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In this week's episode of "Scheer Intelligence," Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer interviews Joel Whitney, author and co-founder of Guernica magazine.Whitney's new book, "Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers," explores how the CIA influenced acclaimed writers and publications during the Cold War to produce subtly anti-communist material. During the interview, Scheer and Whitney discuss these manipulations and how the CIA controlled major news agencies and respected literary publications.

Class and class struggle in China todayResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An examination of the transformed economy in China and the consequent changes in class relations, and how the Communist Party has managed to maintain its rule.

Class, Party and the Challenge of State TransformationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An essay examining the challenges of changing the state and status quo following major crises of capitalism, and how the current neoliberal status quo has persisted through the various crises it has presented.

Class, Race and MarxismResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017Through the lense of Marxism, Roediger argues that racial divisions and the identity of whiteness are inexorably connected to capitalism and the logic of capital.

Cleaning Toilets for JesusResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An examination of the job-readiness program called Jobs for Life. Founded in 1996 in North Carolina, JFL is a global nonprofit organization premised on the belief that the local church is the ideal solution to unemployment and poverty.

Climate Change As GenocideResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Is this what a world battered by climate change will be likeone in which tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of people perish from disease, starvation, and heat prostration while the rest of us, living in less exposed areas, essentially do nothing to prevent their annihilation?

Climate Struggles and EcosocialismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The hard right U.S. administration of Donald Trump has widened the terrain of struggle over climate change and, indeed, the entire array of environmental issues facing the ecology of North America and the working class movement.

Clinton, Assange and the War on TruthResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An overview of an interview with Hilary Clinton by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to promote her score-settling book about why she was not elected President of the United States.

C. L. R. James and His TimesEvery Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact and the Works of C.L.R. JamesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Review of the Worldwrite documentary film Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact and the Works of C.L.R. James.

CNN: "Russia is an Adversary, Ukraine is Not."Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Monday morning. David Chalian, CNN Political Director, on CNN's "New Day" program. News ticker: "How do Trump-Russia and DNC-Ukraine compare?" New Day co-anchor Alysin Camerota (former Fox anchor) puts the question to her Political Director. Chalian's mechanical reply: "Russia is an adversary, Ukraine is not."

Coal Miners' Futures in Renewable EnergyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017If President Trump wants to earn a rare legislative victory and take political credit for reviving hard-hit regions of rural America, he should take a close look at how one Kentucky coal company is creating jobs.

A Coalition of Scientists Keeps Watch on the U.S. Government's Climate DataResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Via memos leaked to the press, rogue tweets, and unnamed agency sources, the public learned of growing pressure on federal employees to avoid sharing their scientific work. Meanwhile, small but significant changes to federal web pages hinted at the demise of former president Barack Obamas efforts to manage climate change.

Collective Memory and Cultural AmnesiaIntroduction to the December 17, 2017 issue of Other VoicesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memories and the past. That's the nature of capitalism, especially the speeded-up hypercapitalism of today. The past is useless: profits are made by getting rid of the old and replacing it with something new.

The colour-coded Israeli ID system for PalestiniansIsrael's control over the Palestinian population is based on a system of colour-coded IDs in the occupied territoriesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A look at the colour-coded system of Palestinian population control that has remained in place in Israel for five decades; it still affects everything from freedom of movement to family unity.

Comey's Lies of OmissionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An examination of testimony by FBI Director James Comey, which pitted President Donald Trump against the powerful US foreign policy establishment that aims to punish the President for not being 'sufficienty hostile' to the Kremlin.

A common treasury for all: Gerrard Winstanley's vision of utopiaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Gerrard Winstanley was the ideological force behind the Diggers, a left-wing movement during the English Revolution. The Digger movement of 1648-1650 arose out of the juncture of three processes, notably the transition from feudalism to capitalism.

Community Organizing in Philly and New YorkResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A look back at the NY and Philadelphia community activist groups White Lighting, O4O, Standing Up Angry, Young Patriots, and what can be learned towards building compelling and viable alternatives to the Right.

A Comprehensive Map of American LynchingsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A look at the practice of lynching in the United States through to the 1960's, where thousands of non-white Americans, mostly black, were killed in public acts of terror. A new map project called 'Monroe Work Today', named after the pioneering sociologist, shows that lynching was not limited to the southern states.

Concrete, or beaches? World's sand running out as global construction boomsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A crucial component of concrete, sand is vital to the global construction industry. China alone is importing a billion tonnes of sand a year, and its increasing scarcity is leading to large scale illegal mining and deadly conflicts. With ever more sand fetched from riverbeds, shorelines and sandbanks, roads and bridges are being undermined and beaches eroded. And the world's sand wars are only set to worsen.

Condemnation Grows for Bipartisan Attack on Free Speech Rights of BDS SupportersLawmakers urged to reject bill that would punish Americans for supporting boycotts of IsraelResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A pair of bipartisan bills targeting boycotts of Israel and Israeli settlements appear to have widespread support in Congress, to the dismay of civil rights advocates who say the proposals are an attack on free speech.

Confederate Monuments DownResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017For the rewriters, the Civil War became a "misunderstanding" (as Donald Trump echoes today) and Confederate generals and politicians were transformed into great Southern heroes and cultural icons. African-Americans were routinely humiliated, brutalized, and mutilated.

Connexions welcomes your supportResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Your contribution to Connexions will help us preserve the memories, experiences, strategies, success, failures and visions of those who have worked for social justice over the years so that future generations can learn and be inspired by them.

A Consistently Erroneous TechnologyA Magician in the LabResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A look at the polygraph, or lie detector technology, and why it is unreliable.

The conspiracy to censor the InternetResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The political representatives of the American ruling class are engaged in a conspiracy to suppress free speech. Under the guise of combating "trolls" and "fake news" supposedly controlled by Russia, the most basic constitutional rights enumerated in the First Amendment are under direct attack.

Corporate America UnmaskedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017While US public views seem generally favourable about American corporations, an extensive study by psychologist Dr. Gary Brumback concludes that leadership, particularly in large corporations, is found to be morally depraved and their organizations often dysfunctional.

Could Punching Nazis Have Prevented Hitler From Taking PowerResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017There have been repeated references to how Nazism could have been stopped by street-fighting, with almost no attention paid to the concrete socio-political conditions of Germany between 1920 and 1933. For many of those who think that physical force was the key to stopping Nazism, the viral video of Richard Spencer getting punched in the face was far more important as a guide to action than understanding the tragic history of the German left.

Counter Mobilization: an Effective Response to Right Wing SpeechResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017As the effects of the Great Recession linger, the ruling rich are making every effort to ensure that the working class bears the brunt of the economic crunch. In this atmosphere, elements of the extreme right feel emboldened to promote their reactionary wares. From the increasing visibility of right wing websites like breitbart.com, to well-publicized speaking tours by conservative ideologues like Milo Yiannopoulos and others, to former Breitbart editor Steve Bannon attaining the status of presidential advisor  the message from the top is clear: racism, sexism and xenophobia will all be used to divide and oppress the 99%. Meanwhile, these same poisonous sentiments are used to divert attention from those actually responsible for and benefiting from the current crisis.

Cowardly New World: Alternative Media Under Attack by Algorithms Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An insidious assault is underway against alternative media on the internet. Leftist and progressive websites have been suffering significant declines in traffic. Some have had online income sources cut. Many others have been publicly defamed.The only voices speaking the truth, says Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, are those on the fringes and we must amplify them however we can. Some suggestions: * Read/view alternative media stories and share them in whatever venues you can.* Stop consuming mainstream media and stop posting links to it.* Actively support alternative media by donating money, time or other resources.* Stop using Google as your search engine; I recommend DuckDuckGo. You will be surprised at how much you've been missing.* Become the media: take your own photos or video and write up stories yourself for whatever outlet will take your work, even if that's only your own blog.

Creating a Socialism that Meets NeedsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017There is widespread and growing understanding that the current social order cannot continue without catastrophe occurring - yet we lack a vision of what might replace it.

Creating an Ecological Society Toward a Revolutionary TransformationResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017Because it aims squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Creating an Ecological Society is filled with revolutionary hope. Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, who have devoted their lives to activism, Marxist analysis, and ecological science, provide informed, fascinating accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old.

A creeping quiet in Indian journalism?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017How a combination of government pressure, harassment by political activists, commercial actors including both advertisers and some media owners, is exercising a chilling effect on Indian journalism.

The Crimes of Seal Team 6Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, SEAL Team 6 is today the most celebrated of the U.S. military's special mission units. But hidden behind the heroic narratives is a darker, more troubling story of "revenge ops," unjustified killings, mutilations, and other atrocities -- a pattern of criminal violence that emerged soon after the Afghan war began and was tolerated and covered up by the command's leadership.

Cultural Imperialism and the Seeds of Catastrophe: Ripping Up The Social Fabric of IndiaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Foreign capital is dictating the prevailing development agenda in India. The aim is to replace current structures with a system of industrial agriculture suited to the needs of Western agribusiness, food processing and retail concerns.The plan is for a fraction of the population left in farming working on contracts for large suppliers and large chain supermarkets offering a diet of highly processed, denutrified, genetically altered food based on crops soaked with chemicals and grown in increasingly degraded soils according to an unsustainable model of agriculture that is less climate/drought resistant, less diverse and unable to achieve food security.

Cutting Cords to Kurds: Facebook's Foreign PolicyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The recent deletion and suspension of Facebook accounts of Kurdish supporters provides further troubling evidence that the popular social media company has been censoring the Kurdish resistance for the past five years.

The danger of the white American liberalWhat a team of 10-year-olds building a robot can teach us about sexism and racism in the US.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Liberal white American reaction to the sexism and racism exeplified in the Google manifesto and the killing of nine innocent people at Emanuel AME church in Charleston shows how remarkably how easy it is to condemn the evil other when we can use that to avoid facing our responsibility for the society we ourselves have created and work to maintain.

The Dangerous Academic is an Extinct SpeciesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Nair analyzes current academia and the structures in place that prevent academics and students from putting forth ideas that challenge the status quo.

Dangerous GroundsAntiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam EraResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases. Owned and operated by civilian activists, GI coffeehouses served as off-base refuges for the growing number of active-duty soldiers resisting the war.

The Dangers of Salting Under TrumpResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Johnson analyzes the legal rights that a labour union 'salt' has -- or doesn't have -- in the wake of the anti-union of the U.S. government.

Dawn of "Total War" and the Surveillance StateResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In its efforts to mobilize society for "total war," a still nascent corporate liberal state expanded its scope and authority and in doing so laid foundations and set precedents for the expansion of executive power and the rise of the national surveillance state.

A Day in the Life of a Day LaborerResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A look at day labourers in Chicago, many who work precariously, under dangerous conditions and sometimes without getting paid.

The Dead Don't RestResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Rodgers reviews two novels by Han Kang, "The Vegetarian" and "Human Acts", and analyzes their shared themes dealing with humanity's struggle against its own most destructive qualities.

Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things WereResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Martin Empson reviews an important book (DEAD ZONE: Where the Wild Things Wereby Philip Lymber,Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) for activists, a frightening examination of the impact of industrial agriculture on the environment, and particularly biodiversity.

Debating the world revolutionBook ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A review of "To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International", edited and translated by John Riddell.

The Decertification of Iran Speech: Refuting TrumpResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Despite the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declaring each time it has reported - most recently in August 2017 - that Iran is in total compliance with its agreements in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Donald Trump has now carried through on his threat to decertify Iran.

The Deep State Goes to War With President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats CheerResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017There is a real danger here that this maneuver could harshly backfire, to the great benefit of Trump and to the great detriment of those who want to oppose him. If any of the significant claims in this dossier turn out to be provably false -- such as Cohens trip to Prague -- many people will conclude, with Trumps encouragement, that large media outlets (CNN and BuzzFeed) and anti-Trump factions inside the government (CIA) are deploying "Fake News" to destroy him. In the eyes of many people, that will forever discredit -- render impotent -- future journalistic exposés that are based on actual, corroborated wrongdoing.

The Deep State is the StateResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Like all elements of the state, the so-called deep state exists to enforce the economic supremacy of US capitalism.

Demythifying Native Americans"All the Real Indians Died Off" And 20 Other Myths about Native AmericansResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's and Dina Gilio-Whitaker's "All the Real Indians Died Off" And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans.

Depraved Treatment of Drug War Captives on US Coast Guard ShipsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Wessler provides details in an interview transcript on how the United States Coast Guard routinely subjects individuals alleged to be involved in the transport of cocaine between South America and Central America to such conditions.

Deranged and Deluded: The Media's Complicity In The Climate CrisisResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In an important recent book, the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh refers to the present era of corporate-driven climate crisis as 'The Great Derangement'. For almost 12,000 years, since the last Ice Age, humanity has lived through a period of relative climate stability known as the Holocene. When Homo sapiens shifted, for the most part, from a nomadic hunter-gatherer existence to an agriculture-based life, towns and cities grew, humans went into space and the global population shot up to over seven billion people.

Despair is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of HopeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Brockman lists various methods to prevent feelings of cynicism, frustration, and grief for social activists and to inspire renewed hope in their efforts.

The Destruction of Inlet BeachResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017As Inlet Beach undergoes development to turn the site into a tourist vacation spot and with no support from the county government or develepment laws, the local community is slowly driven away.

The Destructive Power Trips of Amazon's BossResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Pointed criticism of online retailer Amazon and its Boss Jeff Bezos, whose practices include avoiding state taxes, erosion of traditional retail and small business, and undermining the tax base in communities.

Detroit's Rebellion and Rise of the Neoliberal StateResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In 1967 hundreds of uprisings circulated across U.S. cities with unprecedented power and intensity. Almost always the provocation was racist police violence - ranging from arrests to beatings to shootings.

Detroit's Rebellion at FiftyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017From the days of the Marcus Garvey nationalist movement in the early decades of the century, to Malcolm X, revolutionary autoworkers and the Black Power movement in the 1960s, Detroit was front and center in debates on strategy and tactics to win Black freedom.

Dialectics and Difference: Against the 'Decolonial Turn'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017"Decolonial" criticism is an example of vogue academic approach, which can be grafted onto preexisting disciplines and practices with relative ease. Still further, in so doing, it offers the semblance of radicalism, because it appears to challenge the tacit erasures and hidden presuppositions of prior revolutionary perspectives.

Did Scandal Tip the Balance?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In 2014 a rumor circulated in UAW plants even beyond the Detroit area that UAW Vice President General Holiefield had been "on the take." He suddenly resigned, his administrative assistant was let go and within months Holiefield died from cancer. Then silence.

The Dirty Secret of the Korean WarResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017There is a much darker denial at work in forgetting the specifics of history, and this unwillingness to honestly examine the Korean War is at the root of our ongoing conflict with North Korea.

Discovery of mass graves highlights bloody scramble for Congos resourcesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Last week, a team with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights together with personnel from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) discovered scores of mass graves in Kasai Province, a south central region of the Congo currently wracked by bloody conflict between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and Kamuina Nsapu, a local tribal militia.

Disobeying Spain: the Catalan Referendum for IndependenceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017On October 1, 2017, all across Catalunya ballot boxes were ripped from people's hands by masked police and a dangerous violence was unleashed, at random, upon some of the 2,262,424 people who stood in long lines to cast their vote. The repression dealt by the Spanish State to prohibit the Catalan Referendum, in every bloodied baton and ever rubber bullet, transformed the day from a question of independence to a question of democracy.

Divine ecstasy of Nature: Selected Writings by John MuirResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A new collection of John Muir's (1838-1914) writings promises to inspire another generation to fall in love with wild nature, to care for it, to know that wilderness is not optional but central to our survival in the centuries to come. His words survive him. "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike."

Do you know a community that might like a new newspaper?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017At least 171 media organizations in 138 communities closed between 2008 and this January [2017]. However, Canadian communities still should be able to have reliable newspapers. They need to explore creating community-controlled not-for-profit papers.

Do You Socialists Have Any Plans?Why we need socialist architectsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Bruce Lerro claims that the only way 21st century socialism is going to get any traction or respect from the working class is if socialists collectively develop blueprints for socialism: five years, ten years, fifty years down the road.

Doctors in DenialWhy Big Pharma and the Canadian medical professionals are too close for comfortResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017A look into the disturbing relationships between medical doctors and Big Pharma, which has influenced what medical students learn and the interactions doctors have with their patients.

DoloresResource Type: Film/VideoFirst Published: 2017Dolores is a 2017 documentary directed by Peter Bratt on the life of activist Dolores Huerta. The film focuses on Huerta's work to organize farmworkers in California to form the United Farm Workers (UFW), in alliance with such movements as the Chicano Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, LGBTQ social movements, and the late 20th century Women's rights movement.

Don Draper Rules: Russian Ads and American MadnessResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017So we've finally seen some of the social media ads which we are told skewed the entire election in 2016 and constituted a key part of the internet assault on America launched by Vladimir Putin's "troll army." Scary stuff blazoned across front pages and screen scrolls everywhere. But before going on, perhaps we should find out what makes a social media account part of Putin's invasion force?Well, according to Twitter, it is ANY account created in Russia.

Donald Trump and the death of the two-state solutionThe demise of the two-state has been evident for some time.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017At his meeting with the US President Donald Trump at the White House on February 15, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scored what in his eyes must be a spectacular diplomatic success: he got the new president to reverse the US' long-standing support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to give him a free hand to do more or less whatever he likes with the West Bank.

Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life -- And He Isn't Going to Change After CharlottesvilleResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Consider the first time the president's name appeared on the front page of the New York Times was an article which pointed out that the Department of Justice had sued the Trump family's real estate company in federal court over alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act because of anti-black bias. Over the next four decades, Trump burnished his reputation as a bigot.

Driverless Cars: Hype, Hubris and DistractionsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The driverless personal car is quickly emerging without a legal, ethical and priorities framework, when priorities should be placed on safer, more efficient and less polluting means of transport.

Drowning in the waste of Israeli settlersResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Several decades ago, the al-Matwa spring in Salfit city would often be crowded with Palestinians hiking in the valley and families picnicking alongside the clear, flowing stream. Now, however, the sewage flowing through the spring, the rancid smell that engulfs the valley, and the mosquitoes swarming the area have left the valley largely deserted.

Dump the Guardian!Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Guardian has spent the last two years relentlessly attacking Jeremy Corbyn. Only recently has it changed its tune, perhaps worried that it has alienated too many readers. Corbyn's success has been despite the Guardian and the rest of the corporate media. The Guardian will now want readers to forget its propaganda war on Corbyn. We've compiled this list so they don't. Dump the Guardian!

The Dying Days of LiberalismHow Orthodoxy, Professionalism, and Unresponsive Politics Finally Doomed a 19th-century ProjectResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017It's not a small thing that has fallen here, not merely the defeat of Hillary Clinton and Americans rejecting Obamas "legacy". We are dealing with a series of institutions, an expert class, and a network of political and corporate alliances, that is being shaken beyond repair. We are in the earliest days of a historical transition, so it's not clear what is coming next, and the labels that have been proliferating demonstrate confusion and uncertainty -- populism, nativism, nationalism, etc.

East York Workers' AssociationConnexipedia articleResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The East York Workers' Association (EYWA) was an unemployment movement that developed during the Great Depression in the township of East York, Ontario.

Ecologist Special Report: Why mining and violence are inextricably linkedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The South African government is currently embarking on streamlining decision-making processes in mining. To many this sounds like more top-down decision-making at the expense of those communities that will have to host mines and paves the way for more violent conflict, warns Jasper Finkeldey.

Ecology and value theoryResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A review of Jason W Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital.

The Economy of an Ecological Society Will Be at the Service of HumanityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017What would a truly just, equal and ecologically sustainable future look like? Why would it require a change in our economic system, namely the end of capitalism? Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams answer these questions in Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation.

The Ecosocialism of Joel KovelResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Joel Kovel has been a prestigious and best-selling writer on psychotherapy, a militant left activist from the middle 1960s onward, an eco-theorist and an explorer of the world just beyond our sense perceptions.

EducationSources.caResource Type: WebsiteFirst Published: 2017Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.

Election Interference HypocrisyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017While Canadian and Western media pursue Russian election meddling they ignore clear-cut Canadian meddling elsewhere, and the Unites States' long history of interference in elections around the world, including in Canada.

Empire Abroad, Empire At HomeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The institutions and ideas U.S. elites used to project "full spectrum dominance" onto the global stage have eventually become part of the political order in the U.S. It is empire -- most of all -- that dooms democracy. As corporations have an insatiable drive for profit, empires have an insatiable drive for power.

Empire of Destruction Precision Warfare? Don't Make Me Laugh Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A single word to summarize American war-making in this last decade and a half: rubble. It's been a painfully apt term since September 11, 2001. In addition, to catch the essence of such war in this century, two new words might be useful: rubblize and rubblization.

Enemies of the PeopleHow hatred of the masses bridges our partisan divideResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017As we veer into a brave new age of right-wing populism, a restive mood of contempt for the masses has seized the opposition. Demoralized liberals, still reeling from the debacle of the 2016 presidential ballot, are salving their wounds with reveries of metaphysical superiority.

Engels, Neanderthals and the origins of the familyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Based on concrete evidence from genetics and archaeology, Friedrich Engel's theories well over a hundred years ago are still relevant to current disputes about the origins of the human family.

EnvironmentSources.comResource Type: WebsiteFirst Published: 2017Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.

E. P. Thompson's Socialist HumanismE. P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and PolemicsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Cal Winslow's E. P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics.

Essential Debates at the Intersections of Science and SocialismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In the introduction to his new book "A Redder Shade of Green", Ian Angus says ecosocialism must be based on a careful synthesis of Marxist social science and Earth System science -- a twenty-first century rebirth of scientific socialism.

Europe: Reactionary Working Class? "Could it be that the Left have failed their constituencies"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017There is no lack of condemnation and moralizing to those who go to the far right. An increasing number of commentators, however, are now beginning to suspect that the march of large groups of workers toward the far right can be an expression of protest against the prevailing social development. Not all have received the benefits from the globalization success story.

Evicting the UnderclassResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A Chinese government campaign to expel migrant workers from Beijing is designed to reap greater profits from urban land and reserve the city for elites.

Evictions, trials as Russian Church claims propertyWith the resurgence of a Kremlin-endorsed monastery, islanders on Valaam have endured trials, evictions and arson.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017With the resurgence of a Kremlin-endorsed monastery, islanders on Valaam have endured trials, evictions and arson.

Expansion of Renewable Energies in Mexico Has Victims, TooResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An account of the impact of wind and solar projects in the Yucatan state of Mexico on the nearby communities, in particular farmers, and the failures of the government to consult or inform the community on the environmental impacts and contract terms.

The Facts Proving Corbyn's Election TriumphResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Corbyn has proved himself the most popular Labour leader with the electorate in more than 40 years, apart from Blairs landslide victory in 1997.

Fake news about the Rojava revolutionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Sharply different opinions have developed among the radical left in recent years towards the Syrian radical democratic movement led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) -- an initially Kurdish-based force which through a series of political and military struggles and alliances has recently formed the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, as a model for a multi-ethnic, non-sectarian, federal and socially just alternative for the nation and the region.

Fake News about Venezuela: A Simple RecipeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017"Journalists" who want to write fake news about Venezuela, or about any other country or group that dares to stand up to US imperialism, only need to follow this simple recipe:- Choose one or more countries/groups opposed to US imperialism- If available, have a former official, now being paid by the US government, make the accusations- Season well with doses of "war on terror" and/or "war on drugs"- Sprinkle with opinions of "experts" who work in DC think tanks or US-funded NGOs

Fake news, echo chambers and filter bubbles: Underresearched and overhypedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In the early years of the internet, it was revolutionary to have a world of information just a click away from anyone, anywhere, anytime. Many hoped this inherently democratic technology could lead to better-informed citizens more easily participating in debate, elections and public discourse.

Fake News Inquiry: Old Wine in New BottlesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A criticism of a recent investigation by the UK's Culture, Media and Sports committee into 'fake news' and public persuasion by false propaganda, describing the challenges of identifying or preventing the dissemination of fake news.

Fake News: the Unravelling of US Empire From WithinResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A war of opposing certitudes and denunciations is waged day to day between the long-ruling US corporate media and the White House. Both continuously proclaim ringing recriminations of the other's 'fake news'. Over months they both portray each other as malevolent liars.

FAO: Plantations are not forests!Since 1948 the UN's Food and Agriculture has been clinging to an outmoded definition of 'forests' that includes industrial wood plantationsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The FAO definition considers forests to be basically just 'a bunch of trees', while ignoring other fundamental aspects of forests, including their many other life-forms such as other types of plants, as well as animals, and forest-dependent human communities. Equally, it ignores the vital contribution of forests to natural processes that provide soil, water and oxygen.

Fascism and the far right; twenty years onResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Author Dave Renton revisits his book Fascism: Theory and Practice, and examines how his perspectives would change if he was to think today about the same questions raised 20 years ago.

Fast food rights: organising the unorganisedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The experience from the examples of organising the unorganised both in the US and UK demonstrate that it is possible to develop union organisation; significant examples are discussed in this article, particularly in a British context.

The FBI: Silent Terror of the Fourth ReichResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Lately, there's been a lot of rhetoric comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. The concern is that a Nazi-type regime may be rising in America. That process, however, began a long time ago.

The FBI's Forgotten Criminal HistoryResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The FBI has a long record of both deceit and incompetence. Five years ago, Americans learned that the FBI was teaching its agents that "the FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law to impinge on the freedom of others." This has practically been the Bureau's motif since its creation in 1908.

The FBI's Perjury Trap of the CenturyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017John Brennan, Jim Comey, Sally Yates, Peter Strzok and a passel of deep state operatives -- all of whom baldly abused their offices, set a perjury trap designed to snare Mike Flynn as a first step in relitigating and reversing the voters' verdict.

The FBI's Secret RulesPresident Trump has inherited a vast domestic intelligence agency with extraordinary secret powers.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A collection of articles exploring the contents and implications of a cache of internal FBI manuals, offering a rare window into the FBIs quiet expansion since 9/11.

Fear and Trembling in the WorkplaceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Organized labour is desperately in need of a major facelift. The AFL-CIO needs to hire the best public relations firm in the land, pay them what they ask, do exactly as they say, and get busy educating the American public.

A Few Things About Nonviolence: A Response to Yoav LitvinResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The goal of a true movement opposing American fascism should not be adrenaline-boosting brawls, it can only be the long and dedicated work of dismantling various engines of white supremacy within our socio-political landscape.

Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Why Americans Hate MuslimsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Certainly, anti-Arab and Muslim sentiments in the US have been around for generations, but it has risen sharply in the last two decades. Arabs and Muslims have become an easy scapegoat for all of America's failed wars and counter-violence.

The Flint MilitantsEighty years ago, the Flint Sit-Down Strike showed the power of a determined rank and file and a class-conscious leadershipResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In 1937 hundreds of autoworkers seized two General Motors (GM) plants in Flint, Michigan, paralyzing the massive corporation's production line. The workers' new tactic - the sit-down strike - threatened to fundamentally change the balance of power between workers and management.

The Fort Hood 43Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A history of the 43 infantrymen who refused to be deployed against protestors at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Forty QuestionsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An excerpt from Valeria Luiselli's book "Tell me How it Ends", a damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children in the United States.

Fracking kills newborn babies - polluted water likely causeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A new study in Pennsylvania, USA shows that fracking is strongly related to increased mortality in young babies. The effect is most pronounced in counties with many drinking water wells indicating that contamination by 'produced water' from fracking is a likely cause. Radioactive pollution with uranium, thorium and radium is a 'plausible explanation' for the excess deaths.

Frantz Fanon: Decolonisation through revolutionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015); Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015); and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution (I B Taurus, 2016). The three books illustrate a renewed interest among activists and within academia in the life and work of Frantz Fanon. The three highlighted works demonstrate that Fanon has many lessons for current movements against racism, imperialism and capitalism.

Free Speech for the Right? A Primer on Key Legal Questions and PrinciplesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The rise in national attention to the "alt-right" and fascist-white supremacist protesters has raised questions about the parameters of free speech in America. When can free speech be limited, if ever? What are the implications of attempting to limit controversial speech? And what precedents has the Supreme Court set regarding free speech?

Free Speech and Unsafe Spaces Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Malik criticizes "the blinkered, self-centred, indeed narcissistic, attitudes that shape much contemporary discussion on speech and its limits. Free speech, from this perspective, requires not a robust exchange of ideas but the validation of my views. I should have the right to denounce anyone I wish, but criticism of my views is a denial of my free speech. Vigorously defending oneself against criticism is to deny safe space for one's critics."

From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content that threatens their rule. But in the "democratic" west, it is being done differently. The state does not have to interfere directly -- it outsources its dirty work to corporations.

From Left Radicalism to Radical IslamismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The current preoccupations of Islamic youth in Britian are much different from the anti-racist activism and political radicalism of the author's generation.

From the EditorsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Beyond the specifics of the disagreements regarding the election results, it also became clear that political support for the Insurgent Notes project, as it had evolved within that small group was not as deep-seated as needed to allow for coherent decision-making about how we should proceed. We are in the process of forming a new editorial group that we hope will address that fundamental challenge.

Fury at Azaria Verdict is Israel's Trump MomentResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Examining the popular reaction to the conviction in military court of Elor Azaria for manslaughter as demonstrating a deep social divide in the vein of Trump's election in the US and the Brexit vote in the UK.

The Future Belongs to the BlasphemersA message from ex-Muslims to mark International Blasphemy DayResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Some people believe that disagreeing with deeply held beliefs is hate. It is not. I want to remind you that many of the most powerful ideas, ideas that changed our world were once heretical. I want to remind you that many of the most radical thinkers and reformists in past eras were blasphemers against the established order of their day.

Gaza's women of steelResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Gadzo interviews three different women in Gaza who have taken on difficult, yet culturally progressive, employment in the wake of the region's economic devastation.

Gender segregation is humiliating and damagingResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The author looks at gender segregation, drawing on her own personal experiences in Iran but also in a broader context and the resulting psychological damage done to girls from a very young age.

Gene Drives: A Scientific Case for a Complete and Perpetual BanResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017One of the central issues of our day is how to safely manage the outputs of industrial innovation. Novel products incorporating nanotechnology, biotechnology, rare metals, microwaves, novel chemicals, and more, enter the market on a daily basis. The majority of products receive no regulatory supervision at all.

The Genocide of the Rohingya: Big Oil, Failed Democracy and False ProphetsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the west for many years, she was made a 'democracy icon' because she opposed the same forces in her country, Burma, at the time that the US-led western coalition isolated Rangoon for its alliance with China.

Gentrification Represents a Geography of InequalityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017What does gentrification mean for the future of American cities? It means more than the arrival of trendy shops and expensive coffee. Peter Moskowitz intertwines human narratives with incisive analysis of the systemic forces contributing to America's crises of race and inequality, in How to Kill a City. Click here now to order this book with a donation to Truthout!The following is a Truthout interview with Peter Moskowitz, author of How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood.

Geri Allen: A TributeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017By the time Geri Allen, the pianist, composer and Detroit native who died June 27, 2017 at the age of 60, arrived in New York City in 1984, she had finished one of the most rigorous formal educations then available for an aspiring jazz musician, and it showed

Ghost NationAn ethnic-cleansing campaign by the government threatens to empty South SudanResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Reporter Nick Turse provides a first hand acount of his time spent covering a refugee crisis in Southern Sudan, where the government's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) is committing atrocities that include mass rape, mutilation, torture, and the burning down of villages.

Gilroy and Reed on Race, Class & CultureResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The common theme has been the way that those who call themselves 'progressive' or 'anti-racist' often draw upon ideas that are deeply regressive and rooted in racial ways of thinking; and that the consequences of identity politics and of concepts such as cultural appropriation is to bring about not social justice but the empowerment of those who would act as gatekeeprs to particular communities. The articles have inevitably drawn much hostility, especially from would-be gatekeepers, who insist that to challenge such ideas is to challenge antiracism, even to 'defend white supremacy'.

A Global Matrix of ControlWar Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global PacificationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Jeff Halper's War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification.

Globalization vs. Empire: Can Trump Contain the Growing Split?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A brief history of US policy supporting globalization and the growing divide it has created between US hegemony and global capitalism, and criticism of the Trump administrations capability to deal with the impacts of this divide.

Globe and Mail promotes Controversial Mining MagnateResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017How close is too close when it comes to media outlets working with institutions set up by wealthy individuals to influence the news? The question becomes important to ask when Canada's "national newspaper" promotes a worldview paid for by one of the planet's most controversial mining magnates. The Globe and Mail's close ties to the Munk Debates and University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs should worry journalists and everyone who cares about foreign policy discussion in this country.

God: A Human History - a rescue attempt by Reza AslanBook reviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Gods and religions have caused so much distress that even those who have spent a lifetime apologising for and ignoring the doctrinal foundations of their abuses must make a rescue attempt.

Goodbye to Golden Rice? GM Trait Leads to Drastic Yield Loss and "Metabolic Meltdown"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017While proponents of Golden rice have blamed its failure to reach the market on "over-regulation" of GMOs and on "anti-GMO" opposition, the latest research suggests that problems intrinsic to GMO breeding are what have prevented researchers from developing Golden Rice suitable for commercialization.

Google's Eric Schmidt admits political censorship of search resultsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Recent remarks by the Executive Chairman of Google's parent company confirm charges that the company has been deliberately altering its search algorithms and taking other measures to prevent the public from accessing information that is critical of the US government.

The Great American Sex Panic of 2017Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017What interest of sanity or reason is served by this reckless lumping together of flicks of the tongue and forcible rapes into the single broad-brush term sexual misconduct, as though there is no important difference between an oafish pat or crude remark at an office party and a gang rape?

Green nationalism? How the far right could learn to love the environmentResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Myths of a pagan past in harmony with nature have been a feature of green nationalism, from its beginnings through to the Anastasia ecovillages in contemporary Russia where - unlike their equivalent hippy communes found in the West - sustainable living is combined with a 'reactionary eco-nationalism'. Could it happen here too?

The Green Party After the ElectionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Until the Green Party has built a real power base of well-organized, dues-paying members and elected Green caucuses in city councils, state legislatures and the U.S. House, it will not be taken seriously in a presidential run by most media and most voters

Grenfell Tower fire: anger risingResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Four days after the raging inferno that criminally took the innocent lives of so many, survivors and friends and families of the missing are still not only without the support from the authorities that they need, but are suffering an unacceptable lack of information and coordination. It is fair to say, that despite the Tory insistence that all is hand and all that can be done is being done, in reality, all that is being done, is being done by community brothers and sisters and a wider volunteer force. Lacking a central command, people are being fed, clothed and comforted from within the community, organised by those of the community. And while the community has so far largely remained peaceful, united by loss and grief, anger is bubbling.

Grenfell Tower Fire: Corporate Manslaughter in LondonResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A massive fire engulfed Grenfell Tower in the early hours of June 14th. Grenfell Tower is a 24-storey building of public housing flats in the North Kensington area of London. Over 600 people were believed to be inside the building and there are fears that the death toll, currently at 58, will rise to over a 100. This incident generated a wave of public anger over ignored safety warnings, an inadequate response from authorities, and most of all about the (housing) policies that safeguard corporate greed over the rights of the poor and working class, in this case their very lives. This was no accident  it was corporate manslaughter.

Grenfell Tower: the Tragic Price of the Rolled-Back StateResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The British state used to be better organised and effective, but self-interested denigration of the state over the past 30 years has helped erode these strengths, leaving authorities less equiped to handle emergencies such as Grenfell tower disaster.

Guardian Sells False Image of an Open JerusalemResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A Guardian essay on a new Israeli open-rooftops project in Jerusalem, part of a Season of Culture, sadly falls into a standard trap for feelgood articles of this kind. It fails to provide the main context for Jerusalem: that the native Palestinians live under a belligerent Israeli occupation that is ultimately trying to evict them from the city.

The guardians of the Andean potatoResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017More than 2,800 types of potatoes are known to have originated in Peru. The existence of these varieties can be attributed to the high value the Quechua people place on their cultural traditions and biological diversity.

Guardian's day of shame, and the dark depths of liberal McCarthyismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The liberal 'resistance' to Donald Trump has revealed a service media now plumbing its own dark, reactionary depths. A Guardian editorial has welcomed back to public prominence none other than George W Bush. Even for the Blair-protecting, war-apologising Guardian, it's a landmark day of shame.

The Harmful Effects of AntifaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An historic opportunity is being missed. The disastrous 2016 presidential election could and should have been a wakeup call. A corrupt political system that gave voters a choice between two terrible candidates is not democracy.

Has the meaning of "organizing" been forgotten?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Rising inequality, US anti-union laws crushing organized labour south of the boarder, and the slow unrelenting decline of union density here in Canada has renewed the focus on labour union organizing. The response from the leadership of the movement has been focused -- rightly -- on changes to law regulating labour unions that make it harder to organize. However, changing labour laws will not undo the slow decline in union density alone. Unions will also have to actually go out and talk to workers, sign them up, establish a local, bargain a first agreement, and enforce those terms.

HealthSources.caResource Type: WebsiteFirst Published: 2017A web portal featuring information and resources about health, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.

Healthy soil is the real key to feeding the worldResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Some of the more common myths regarding the modern agricultural industry are outlined, notably that large scale commercial farming provides higher yields and greater diversity of products. Indeed the author contests the coversation should move beyond conventional farming vs organic, and that it is regenerative farming practices that concentrate on soil health that will provide the best solution.

Heatwave frequency rises twice as fast in the poorest countriesNew research proves that the countries least responsible for global warming, those least able to adapt, have already been hit much harder byResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A feature of most statements about climate change is the use of the future tense: the poorest countries will be worse-hit than the rich ones. But new research shows that the predicted unequal climate future has actually been with us for decades. The poorest countries have already experienced twice as great an increase in extreme temperatures as the rich ones, and the gap has been widening for more than thirty years.

Hegemony How-ToA Roadmap for RadicalsResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017Hegemony How-To is a practical guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about questions of power, leadership, and strategy.

"Hegemony How-To": Rethinking Activism and Embracing PowerA review of Hegemony How-To: a Roadmap for Radicals, by Jonathan SmuckerResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017"How many times, I wondered, had I favored a particular action or tactic because I really thought it was likely to change a decision-makers position or win over key allies, as opposed to gravitating toward an action because it expressed my activist identity and self-conception? How concerned were we really, in our practice, with political outcomes?"

The Hidden History of the SNCC Research DepartmentResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017SNCC may have been the most important organization of the postwar civil rights movement. It grew out of the wave of sit-ins in 1960 and was guided initially by Ella Baker, the foundational organizer whose emphasis on bottom-up organizing and democracy deeply shaped SNCCs vision and methods.

Higher Education for HireThe Capitalist University: The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States since 1945Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Henry Heller's The Capitalist University: The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States since 1945.

History and Hypocrisy: Why the Korean War Matters in the Age of TrumpResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The DPRK's recent missile test is a "provocation" according to US state sources. A provocation indeed. Firing things into the air that go bang is clearly not a nice thing to do. People really should ease up on things that explode. I mean somebody could get hurt.

A history of American lynchingsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A soil collection project is commemorating the forgotten victims of lynching and helping to tell their stories.

A History of Women's Rights in TorontoResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Whether they were marching in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington or commemorating International Women's Day, women in Toronto have a longstanding tradition of advocating for gender equality across Canada.

Hollowing out democracy and lawResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The recent actions of the Catalan government are not those of politicians respecting democracy. The reaction of the Madrid government, which criminalize political dissent, are equally disturbing.

Honduras Since the 2009 CoupResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017As this is being written, news arrives of arrests and serious charges filed against 14 community members of a poor area of Choluteca for opposing land grabs to build a solar energy plant; 28 small farmers in the northern Agujn Valley criminalized for trying to keep and work their land; and 31 university students and three human rights defenders facing jail after government attacks on student protests in Tegucigalpa.

Hope in Dark TimesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The most dynamic and emergent forces in U.S. politics today are on our side, and possibilities for a radical transformation of the system have not yet been foreclosed. Whether we make good on them is up to us.

How 'Antifa' Mirrors the 'Alt-Right'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Behind the rhetoric of the "alt-right" about white nativism and protecting American traditions, history and Christian values is the lust for violence. Behind the rhetoric of antifa, the Black Bloc and the so-called "alt-left" about capitalism, racism, state repression and corporate power is the same lust for violence.

How are you going to pay for it? Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Debates on how government will pay for new programs suffer from a fundamental fallacy: the assumption that the government spends other people's money. It doesn't.

How Big is My Tribe? The Crisis in CataloniaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A look at recent divisive events in Catalonia, Britain and the US, proposing that we should really be concentrating more on important universal issues such as inequality, influence peddling, profit-only deregulation, and offshore tax havens.

How Bosses Use 'Open Shop' Campaigns to Crush UnionsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Chad Pearson's book "Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement" and Lane Windham's new book "Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970's and the Roots of a New Economic Divide", take a historical look at anti-union tactics through the 20th century, and demonstrate how Unions can regroup, reform and fight back.

How Churchill Broke the Greek ResistanceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017On May 8, 1945, Hitlers successors signed Germany's capitulation. By that point, Greece had already been liberated for six months. Across more than three years, the Greek people had waged a mass resistance against the fascist occupiers -- the Italians, the Bulgarians, and above all the Germans -- in which they had shown heroic courage in the face of a boundless terror.

How Did It Start?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Every serious debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raises the question: "When did it start?" Each side has its own date, proving that the other side started it.

How Do We Organize A Hundred Million?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The strategic considerations discussed in this series of posts assumes that it will take a hundred million activist in the US and many hundreds of millions more worldwide to make revolution. Real politics begin where there are millions, many millions.

How Financial Transaction Taxes Make the Economy More EfficientResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The efforts to implement a financial transactions tax (FTT) within the European Union (EU) seem to be finally coming to a head. While the EU is far from unanimous in support of a FTT, an effort to implement a joint FTT has been moving forward for the last six years under a provision that allows ten or more countries to act collectively.

How Fukushima gave rise to a new anti-racism movementResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Shaw examines the rise in anti-discrimination social activism in Japan after the environmental disasters in 2011 and lack of support from the government towards its non-Japanese citizens.

How Immigrants Built the American Left -- And Can Build It AgainResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The energy and upheaval unleashed by the Trump administration's assault on Muslims, Latinos, and other immigrants, documented or not, has been directed toward a restoration of their rights and dignity, toward the family reunions and free passage into our country that have been happily broadcast from airports all across the country -- and rightly so. But if our ambitions are simply to restore the old status quo or even recreate a liberalized version of the policies extant under President Obama, then we will be selling short the possibilities inherent in this moment.

How Imperialism Works TodayImperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final CrisisResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of John Smith's Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis.

How Inequality KillsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Global March of Neoliberalism: The World Inequality Report 2018

How Israel is digitally policing Palestinian mindsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Israeli authorities have been arresting and holding hundreds of Palestinians it accuses of fanning the flames of violence in the occupied West Bank and Israel.

How many British MPs are working for Israel?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Investigating the revelations that UK embassy staff in Israel are cooperating with Israeli political parties to influence UK policy making.

How Media Bias Fuels Syrian EscalationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The mainstream U.S. media now reports as "flat-fact" the Syrian government's guilt in the April 4, 2017 chemical weapons incident, but the real facts are less clear and some point in the opposite direction.

How (Not) to Challenge Racist ViolenceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017As white nationalism and the so-called "alt-Right" have gained prominence in the Trump era, a bipartisan reaction has coalesced to challenge these ideologies. But much of this bipartisan coalition focuses on individual, extreme, and hate-filled mobilizations and rhetoric, rather than the deeper, politer, and apparently more politically acceptable violence that imbues United States foreign and domestic policy in the 21st century.

How Propaganda Works to Divide UsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Political propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand.

How Russia Became "Our Adversary" AgainResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017How did Russia, which has been a capitalist state for a querter of a century, become "our adversary" to the United States?

How Russia-gate Rationalizes CensorshipResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Russia-gate hysteria has spread beyond simply a strategy for neutralizing Donald Trump or even removing him from office into an excuse for stifling U.S. dissent that challenges the New Cold War, reports Joe Lauria.

How Seattle Voted to Tax the RichResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Seattle further cemented its reputation as one of the most progressive cities in the U.S. last week, when its City Council passed a law to tax the rich, sponsored by socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant along with Councilmember Lisa Herbold.

How the 1989 War on Manuel Noriega's Panama Super-Charged US MilitarismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Manuel Noriega is dead at 83. He seems like a sad footnote to the last disastrous quarter century, but the December 1989 US invasion of Panama really was a permission slip for Washington -- led by both Republicans and Democrats -- to waste whatever potential benefits the end of the Cold War might have brought.

How the aristocracy preserved their powerResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017After democracy finally shunted aside hereditary lords, they found new means to protect their extravagant riches. For all the modern tales of noble poverty and leaking ancestral homes, their private wealth and influence remain phenomenal.

How the UAW Lost at NissanResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In early August, the UAW's union recognition campaign at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi ended in a disastrous 63% "no" vote - 10% greater than the loss at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee three and a half years earlier.

How to Escape the PresentResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A review of Naomi Klein's book "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need". Klein's focus is the global economy and the deeply flawed value system it creates, at the expense of people and the environment.

Hue 1968A Turning Point in the American War in VietnamResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam.

Human Rights: the Latest Weapon Against VenezuelaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Non-governmental organizations are using false information to charge Venezuela with "human rights violations." These are merely extensions of the US and western foreign policy apparatus, working as the local infrastructure that is necessary in regime change operations as well as a source for the media to build its biased narrative.

Humans and Subhumans: Weill Cornell and the Death of the American SoulResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017All patients that walk through the door of Weill Cornell are put into two categories: the humans, who are deemed by Cornell to have "good insurance," and the subhumans, who are deemed by Cornell to have "bad insurance." If you fall into the category of the former, they will generally make a grudging effort to provide you with good care. If you fall into the category of the later, they will literally bend over backwards to see to it that you are provided with truly awful and atrocious care.

Hurricane Harvey and the Dialectics of NatureHouston is the city where capitalism's victory over nature is the most complete - and also where nature takes its ultimate revengeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Proyect argues that historically the shortsighted nature of capitalism has led to natural disasters such as Hurricane Harvey. To understand nature, the ripple effects of its manipulation and to implement laws that protect it is in our only hope to prevent catastrophes such as Hurricane Harvey in the future.

I Am Not Your NegroResource Type: Film/VideoFirst Published: 2017I am Not your Negro explores the history of racism in the United States through James Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr, as well as his personal observations of American history.

ICIJ Releases Paradise Papers Data From ApplebyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A look at data released from the Paradise Papers investigation, a global journalistic collaboration that exposed offshore deals of political players and corporate giants. A team of journalists explored a trove of 13.4 million records from two offshore firms and 19 secret jurisdictions.

Identities and SolidarityOn Anti-Semitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for JusticeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of On Anti-Semitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice, published by Jewish Voice for Peace.

Idylls of the Liberal: The American Dreams of Mark Lilla and Ta-Nehisi CoatesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Social change is not made by noble heroes, even if they find themselves in the right place at the right time to take the credit. It is made by the commoners -- by those who remain nameless and faceless in the legends, and in the political ideologies of Lilla and Coates.

If this is feminism...Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Part of the problem with the response to Tuvel's article is that some seem to feel that they are the only ones who have the legitimate right to talk about certain topics. At best, this is identity politics run amok; at worst it is a turf war.

Immigration's Troubled HistoryImmigration and the Decline of Internationalism in the American Working Class,1864-1919Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Charles R. Leinenweber's Immigration and the Decline of Internationalism in the American Working Class,1864-1919.

Impacts of mass coral die-off on Indian Ocean reefs revealedWarming sea waters - caused by climate change and extreme climatic events - threaten the stability of tropical coral reefs, with potentiallyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017New research by the University of Exeter shows that increased surface ocean temperatures during the strong 2016 El Niño led to a major coral die-off event in the Maldives, and that this has caused reef growth rates to collapse. They also found that the rates at which some reefs species, in particular parrotfish, are eroding the reefs had increased following this coral die-off event.

Impeach the U.S. ConstitutionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017This article explains that democracy was the last thing the U.S. founding fathers wanted to see break out in the new republic, and the Constitution was carefully crafted by propertied elites to protect the privileged from the 'wicked' masses.

Imperialism and the Logic of Mass DestructionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017As throughout much of its war-obsessed history, the United States is currently engaged in military conflict  or threatening such action  across a broad contested terrain. In the cases of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, Washington has resorted to its familiar global modus operandi: sending off barrages of missiles and bombs, much of it hitting civilian populations and resources needed for their survival. Death tolls mount, the largest numbers lately in the protracted battle for Mosul. Heavier casualties are being visited upon non-combatants in Yemen, thanks to U.S.-backed Saudi aerial savagery.

Import and Die: Self-Sufficiency and Food Security in IndiaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017While there are clear signs that India needs to achieve greater food self-sufficiency, there is also a World Bank-backed agenda for the future of India where the majority of farmers don't have much of a role.

In Defense of Cultural Appropriation Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017It is just as well that Im a writer, not an editor. Were I editing a newspaper or magazine, I might soon be out of a job. For this is an essay in defense of cultural appropriation. In Canada last month, three editors lost their jobs after making such a defense.

In search of the common goodResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017This essay examines the historical change in the meaning and understanding of the 'common good', particularly between ancient times and the modern world, and also takes a look at the social and political changes of recent decades that have shaped how we look at the issue.

In Search of the Lost Chord1967 and the Hippie IdeaResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017An extensive look into the social and cultural events that shaped 1967. Golberg touches on influencial musicians such as the Doors, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin as well as LSD, the Summer of Love and the Vietnam War.

In Syria, Western Media Cheer Al-QaedaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Khalek criticizes Western media for their failure to report on attacks in Syria because to do so would highlight how the West has been responsible for prolonging Al-Qaeda's bloodshed.

In the Shadow of the RevolutionResource Type: Film/VideoFirst Published: 2017In the Shadow of the Revolution provides alternative perspectives on Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution. Through interviews with academics, journalists and socal activists the film helps explain the rebellion against the corrupt authoritarian government that created a catastrophe in Venezuela.

Indigenous resistance: my fight for land and life in ColombiaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017On World Day of Indigenous Resistance, Wayúu woman ANGELICA ORITZ shares her experience as a human rights defender, living and fighting for the future of her community in the shadow of the largest opencast mine in Colombia.

Informal Labour, Another Wall Faced by Migrants in Latin AmericaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A large proportion of the 4.3 million migrant workers in Latin America and the Caribbean survive by working in the informal economy or in irregular conditions. An invisible wall that is necessary to bring down, together with discrimination and xenophobia.

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to IndiaBook reviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A review of Shashi Tharoor's book "Inglorious Empire", which is a scorching indictment of British rule in India and British imperialism in general.

Inside Corbyn's OfficeAn interview with Matt Zarb-Cousin Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Jeremy Corbyns former press officer on sabotage within the British Labour party, his relationship to the media, and how Labour can close the polling gap.

Inside The ScorpionA Journalist's Ordeal in Egypt's Most Notorious PrisonResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The story of journalist Mohamed Fahmy's experiences during their two-year confinement in an Egyptian prison.

IntelligentSearch.caResource Type: WebsiteFirst Published: 2017A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.

Introduction to the Inside/Outside StrategyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The inside/outside strategy (IOS) is an approach to organizing and movement building that emphasizes learning from and coordination with resistance movements and political positions you do not completely agree with.

Iran: The Impact of OctoberResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Russian Revolution had a profound influence on the revolutionary movement in the countries neighbouring the new Soviet Republic, and Iran was no exception.

The Irish Dead: Fighting Fascism in Spain, 1937Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In the springtime of 1937, Spain was in the grip of civil war which flared as intense and as hot as the sun that hung over its skies. Of the many different nationalities that went to Spain to help the Republicans defeat the fascists, it was the Irish who proved to be a dominant force, but death stalked the men from the emerald isle and many of them did not see the end of that intensely hot Summer.

Is the Vault 7 Source a Whistleblower?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Historically, the criminal justice system has been a particularly inept judge of who is a whistleblower. Moreover, it has allowed the use of the pernicious Espionage Act  an arcane law meant to go after spies  to go after whistleblowers who reveal information the public interest.

Israel and the A-WordResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Israel's apartheid foundations were laid in its dispossession of the Palestinians in 1948. They were reinforced by the immediate erection of colonial constitutional structures that cemented the exclusion of the colonised. Since then, Israeli law and policy has only deepened the state apparatus of separation and segregation, discrimination and domination. Over the years, countless activists, authors and artists, as well as leading anti-apartheid figures from South Africa, have referred to Israels particular brand of structural discrimination as akin to apartheid. In the last decade, international lawyers have also begun to do likewise, but with reference to the definition of apartheid under international law rather than by analogy to southern Africa.

Israel Barring Palestinians From Entering for Medical Care Over Cellphones, Witnesses SayGaza women say they were turned back at border because they didn't have their cellphones, which were taken by Hamas. Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Palestinians from Gaza attempting to enter Israel claim that Israel's Shin Bet security service has recently begun demanding they hand over their cellphones when being questioned and that those who refuse are barred from entering.

Israel maintains robust arms trade with rogue regimesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Israel's collusion with Myanmar's military is part of a pattern of military aid to rogue regimes that goes back decades, and reflects the importance of the arms trade to Israel's economy.

Israel Seeks 'Jewish' Non-Jews in Numbers Battle with PalestniansResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017With a shortage of Jews to defeat the Palestinians demographically, the Netanyahu government is considering a revision to the traditional rabbinical injunction that a Jew must be born to a Jewish mother -- opening the doors to a new category of 'Jewish' non-Jews.

Israeli Soldiers Shut Down Media Outlets In The West BankResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Israeli soldiers and secret security officers invaded media outlets in dawn raids in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The media outlets provide services to Palestinian TV stations such as Al-Aqsa and Al-Quds.

Israel's New Cultural War of AggressionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A few weeks ago my book Palestines Horizon: Toward a Just Peace was published by Pluto in Britain. I was in London and Scotland at the time to do a series of university talks to help launch the book. Its appearance happened to coincide with the release of a jointly authored report commissioned by the UN Social and Economic Commission of West Asia, giving my appearances a prominence they would not otherwise have had. The report concluded that the evidence relating to Israeli practices toward the Palestinian people amounted to 'apartheid,' as defined in international law.

Israel's New Land Law: Clearing the Path to AnnexationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Israeli parliament passed the legalisation law on Monday night, widening the powers of Israeli officials to seize the final fragments of Palestinian land in the West Bank that were supposed to be off-limits.

Israel's New Travel BanResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Weir calls attention to the bizarre state of affairs in which the recent Israeli travel ban denying entry to anyone supporting Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment against Israel is denied entry to Palestine as well as Israel. What right does Israel have, asks Weir, to decide who may or may not visit Palestine?

Israel's Ploy Selling a Syrian Nuke StrikeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Evidence now available shows that there was no nuclear reactor in the Syrian desert, and that the Israelis had misled George W. Bush's administration into believing that there was in order to draw the United States into bombing missile storage sites in Syria.

Israel's settlements: 50 years of land theft explainedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Today, between 600,000 and 750,000 Israelis live in these sizeable settlements, equivalent to roughly 11 percent of the total Jewish Israeli population. So why have these housing compounds caused so much rancour and been called a threat to the prospect of peace in the Holy Land? Follow this journey to find out.

Israel's Slander NetworkResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The author responds to an article titled "Its Time to Talk About Yves Engler", which was written by a York University student affiliated to the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).

Israels Terrible Problem: Two States or One?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Israel has created a terrible problem which it is incapable of solving. That is why it has always been the case that the United States must pretty much dictate a solution, but it is unable to do so, paralyzed as it is by the heavy influence of Israel and Americas own apologists and lobbyists.

Israel's first trans officer helps with ethnic cleansingResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Queer and transgender activists protested an event featuring an Israeli soldier in Seattle on 5 April.The event was supported by the LGBTQ Commission, a body that advises city leaders on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.Two commissioners resigned in protest just days earlier, criticizing the groups participation as an act of pinkwashing. Pinkwashing is a public relations strategy that deploys Israel's supposed enlightenment toward LGBTQ issues to deflect criticism from its human rights abuses and war crimes and as a means to build up support for Israel among Western liberals and progressives.

The Issue is Not Trump, It is UsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Until real politics return to people's lives, the enemy is not Trump, it is ourselves.

Istvan Meszaros: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In memorium to Istvan Meszaros, an excerpt of his writing shows how he was one of the first Marxists to identify the global environmental crisis as a central contradiction of late capitalism.

'It's okay to be racist in Israel'An Israeli conscientious objector speaks out about racism and subjugation as the occupation enters its 51st year. Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An interview with Sahar Vardi, a conscientious objector in opposition to Israel's policies in the Palestinian territories, who was sentenced to prison and detention for her defiance.

It's Time for the Left to Ask "What Are We For?"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Sarah Jaffe interviewed Maria Poblet. Maria Poblet has been working in base building and community organizing in the Bay Area for 18 years, building Causa Justa Just Cause, a democratically held grassroots organization where she is currently transitioning out of the role of executive director.

It's WMD all over again. Why don't you see it?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Todays frenzy over alleged use of poison gas in Syria is the 2017 version of Anthony Blairs WMD in Iraq. Why can you not see it? Did you think they would do it in exactly the same way again? You are being assailed through your emotions, to act first and think long after, and far too late.

Jacobin and ecomodernism: Two repliesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Two readers, David Schwartzman and David Walters, respond to criticism of Jacobin magazine's special issue on climate change.

A Jewish Atonement for ZionismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A review of Not by Might, nor by Power": The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism, by author Moshe Menuhin. Drawing from personal experience, the book is a methodical and chronological survey of Jewish nationalism.

Jobs for Climate and Justice: A Worker Alternative to the Trump AgendaA working paper from the Labor Network for SustainabilityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Jobs for Climate and Justice exposes and challenges the Trump agenda and proposes the kind of economic program we must fight for. It also offers examples of the great organizing efforts around the country  led by working people  that provide the foundation for the a transition to a just and climate-safe economy.

John Bellamy Foster answers five questions about Marxism and ecologyCan Marxism strengthen our understanding of ecological crises? The author of Marx's Ecology replies to a critic on metabolic rift, sustainabResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In the Anthropocene, we are faced with the eventual prospect, if society continues to follow the path of business as usual, of the end of civilization (in the sense of organized human society) and even potentially of the human species itself. But well before that hundreds of millions of people will be affected by increasing droughts, rising sea levels, and extreme weather events of all kinds.

John Berger (1926-2017)"He helped form a generation for whom he made it possible to discover a different, critical way of seeing"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017John Berger's revolutionary insistence was that our reality could be seen differently, and altered by our intervention.

Journalism as We Knew It Is Never Coming BackResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Its old news that Donald Trump abuses reason, knowledge, decency and dark-skinned people. If you are paying attention, each one of his assaults on decency, intelligence and knowledge will feel urgent, ridiculous or both. Each day he threatens grave damage to actual human beings and the rest of Planet Earth, and each day he demonstrates his incapacity to do anything but inflict more damage.

Journalism, History and War: Sit, Type and BleedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017There are millions of victims throughout the Middle East region, that cannot be understood or expressed through typical media narration: a gripping headline, couple of quotes and a paragraph or two by way of providing context.The price is too high for this kind of lazy journalism.

Journalism and PornographyReal crime is always organisedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017As long as we cannot name something that is bothering us, we have an enormous if not insurmountable impediment to action. The capacity for titillation, for erotic stimulation even with simultaneous pain, is enhanced by suspension of belief or cognition. This is what pornography does and it is also the function of compatible journalism.

JournalismSources.comResource Type: WebsiteFirst Published: 2017A portal featuring news, articles, and resources about journalism, press freedom, free speech, censorship and related topics. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.

Journalistic Integrity: Allan Nairn vs. Julian AssangeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017I've been really upset since the inauguration and trying to cope with the emotions I am encountering daily. It is pretty obvious that a successful meme has been implanted in the progressive mindset that will have as much impact as the claim Ralph Nader gave the 2000 election to Bush. By this I mean that people are extremely pissed off at me for having backed the Green Party and Jill Stein and seem to say with almost a psychic vitriol that it is somehow my fault that Trump got elected. Didnt you throw your vote away on the Greens? Didn't you say awful things about Hillary?

The Journeys of Julia de BurgosBecoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican IconResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Vanessa Perez Rosario's Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon.

Joy Kogawa in conversation with Ulli DiemerResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Ulli Diemer spoke with Joy Kogawa in Toronto on March 14, 2017. Joy Kogawa is the author of Obasan, Gently to Nagasaki, and a number other works of fiction and poetry.

Julius Nyerere: Legacy and defeated dreams in TanzaniaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Julius Nyerere is regarded as one of the greatest African political leaders. He was a visionary for African unity, socialist development and self-reliance in the aftermath of colonialism, and still commands great respect. Though much of his vision failed to materialise he leaves a legacy of ethnic and religious tolerance and peace in his East African country, Tanzania.

The Just Society MovementFor the Poor by the Poor - A Model for Grassroots ActivismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Just Society Movement (1968 - 1972) was a short-lived but remarkably successful Toronto based grassroots social and political advocacy network run by and for Torontos poorest residents.

Just Wait Until I Get TenureResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A Facebook friend, Steven Salaita, recently wrote a post about academe arguing that tenure-track professors are kidding themselves if they say they will become more radical once they get tenure. I agreed with his post, and I made a long reply. Here, I incorporate what I said into a more coherent commentary.

Kenyans Forced Off Tea Highlands By British Colonialists Seek JusticeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Kericho -- One of hundreds of elderly Kenyans seeking to sue the British government for alleged displacement and torture by its colonial predecessor in 1934 to plant tea on their family land, in a case that could encourage other former colonies to press similar claims.

The Killing of History Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Pilger examines Ken Burns' documentary about the Vietnam War and the ongoing revisionist history it presents, as well as the acquiescence of the American 'left' in the era of Trump.

Killing 'Schizophrenics': Contemporary U.S. Psychiatry Versus Nazi PsychiatryResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In the United States in the earlier part of the twentieth century, there was widespread compulsory sterilization of those diagnosed with serious mental illness; and from the 1970s through the early 1990s, dehumanizing experiments that ignored the Nuremberg Code of research ethics were administered on this population by prominent American psychiatrists.

Labor's SchoolhouseLessons from the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The author recounts the Paterson Silk Strike, a 1913 labour dispute organized by mill workers and noted for its large size, duration, and non-violence. Central to the dispute was the requirement by overworked weavers to start running four large looms instead of two, an appropriation of technolgy for the bottom line which has particular relevance for us today.

Land and RacismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A look at the Jewish National Fund (JNF), an organization subsidized by Canadian taxpayers, and its exclusionary land policies.

Language WarsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Issues of language are examined, in particular the maintenance of power by a linguistic or political majority through imposition of linguistic norms and beliefs on a minority.

Latin America: A Conservative Restoration?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017After a decade of the left's near-hegemonic control over government structures throughout Latin America, previously discredited conservative politicians who favour a return to the capitalist neoliberal polices of privatization and austerity are staging a comeback.

Laughing on the Way to ArmageddonResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Roberts argues that he real threat is not from foreign powers like Russia, but from corruption and power games within US politics, and the military/security complex that truly undermine democracy.

Learn from Malcolm XResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017It's time to re-learn lessons from Malcolm in the Black community - nationalism and pride, solidarity and militancy, and a worldview that African Americans are part of a global community in struggle against the injustices of capitalism.

The Left needs to "find common ground" with Evangelical Christians "There's no point arguing that it can't be done because the cultural differences are too great," says ChomskyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A discussion between Noam Chomsky and Charles Derber excerpted from the novel by Derber entitled, "Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Democracy for Social Justice in Perilous Times."

Left reformism, the state and the problem of socialist politics todayResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The recent calls for the British left either to reclaim Labour (Len McCluskey) or to build a new party capable of emulating Syrizas successes in Greece (Ken Loach) demand serious consideration on these pages. At their core these proposals reflect a widespread desire, shared by members of the Socialist Workers Party, to fight the cuts, alongside revulsion at the Labour Partys failure to do so. They also reflect a genuine excitement across the left about the prospects for new left formations such as Syriza and Frances similar Front de Gauche.

The Left/Right Challenge to the Failed "War on Drugs"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017More and more conservatives and liberals, from the halls of Congress to people in communities across the country, are agreeing that the so-called "war on drugs" needs serious rethinking.

The left wing opposition in Italy during the period of the ResistanceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An account of the groups to the left of the PCI, during WW2 by independent Marxist historical researcher Arturo Peregalli. It was first published in 'Revolutionary History, Vol.5, No.4', and translated by Barbara Rossi and Doris Bornstein.

Lenin's April Theses and the Russian RevolutionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In 1917 Lenin arrived from exile iin Petrograd, soon to give an outline of what were to be called the April Theses. Broadly, the theses can be summarised as follows: Only the overthrow of the provisional government and the fight for soviet power could secure a state of affairs that would bring bread to the workers, land to the peasants and peace to end the imperialist war.

Lessons in leftism: Pete Seeger and the black power movementResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The rise of "black power" led Pete Seeger to realize he had become a towering figure in a movement he didn't fully understand. The way he dealt with criticisms of him and his friends holds lessons for today.

Let's Get to WorkResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Instead of asking "What is to be done?", we could start with a different question: "What should I do?" As it turns out, the right-wing hecklers we've all encountered are half right: we should get jobs. And then we should do what we tell workers to do all the time: organize our workplaces. This tactic has a name and a history. It's called "salting." Salting has deep roots in the history of the labour movement and the Left.

Letter From MexicoResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The editors of Insurgent Notes sent a couple of articles on Mexico from the Financial Times to our Mexico correspondent to check their accuracy. The following is his reply.

A Letter from North America  Our Migrant CrisisResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017This is the third of Ernie Tates letters to Left Unity detailing and analysing the struggles against Trump as they emerge on the other side of the pond.

Liberalism as Class WarfareResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Liberals, as guardians of the status quo, are class warriors on the side of economic mal-distribution and the immiseration of the labouring classes and poor for the benefit of the rich.

Liberals Beware: Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With FleasResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An examination of the dishonesty in the New York Times' efforts to undermine President Trump, and broader criticisms of other tactics used by the liberal establishment to the same end.

Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and RedResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017Explores the important, too often neglected left-libertarian currents that have thrived in revolutionary socialist movements. By turns, the collection interrogates the theoretical boundaries between Marxism and anarchism and the process of their formation, the overlaps and creative tensions that shaped left-libertarian theory and practice, and the stumbling blocks to movement cooperation.

Life and Death After the Steel MillsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In her study of a community devastated by industry's flight, anthropologist Christine Walley raises questions about how to create and support meaningful work in a postindustrial world.Steel mills were the economic backbone of many cities across the Midwest and Northeast until the 1980s. When the industry left, former workers not only took a hit economically -- they also felt displaced and suffered disillusionment and a loss of identity.

Linguistic data analysis of 3 billion Reddit comments shows the alt-right is getting strongerTaxonomy of TrollsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The alt-right isn't one group. They don't have one coherent identity. Rather, they're a loose collection of people from disparate backgrounds who would never normally interact: bored teenagers, gamers, men's rights activists, conspiracy theorists and, yes, white nationalists and neo-Nazis. But thanks to the internet, theyre beginning to form a cohesive group identity.

A Little Crooked House: Trudeau, Morneau, BMO & KPMG IncResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Canada's Finance Minister Bill Morneau has recently reinvigorated his promise to crack down on tax evasion schemes, but how can we trust him when he is himself named in the Panama Papers?

The Lobby: Young Friends of IsraelResource Type: Film/VideoFirst Published: 2017In the first of a four-part series, Al Jazeera goes undercover inside the Israel Lobby in Britain. We expose a campaign to infiltrate and influence youth groups, including the National Union of Students, whose president faces a smear campaign coordinated by her own deputy and supported by the Israel Embassy.

London Terror Attack: It's Time to Confront Wahhabism and Saudi ArabiaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In the UK people are dealing with the aftermath of yet another terrorist attack in which innocent civilians were butchered and injured, this time in London. It is time for an honest conversation about Wahhabism, specifically the part this Saudi-sponsored ideology plays in radicalizing young Muslims both across the Arab and Muslim world and in the West.

The long ecological revolution Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Up until the rise of the ecological movement in the late twentieth century, the conquest of nature was a universal trope, often equated with progress under capitalism (and sometimes socialism). To be sure, the notion, as utilized in science, was a complex one. As Francis Bacon, the idea's leading early proponent, put it, "nature is only overcome by obeying her." Only by following nature's laws, therefore, was it possible to conquer her.

The Longest OccupationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In the current maelstrom of imperialism and regional wars, Israeli military supremacy, Islamic fundamentalism and the destruction of whole societies and even civilizations in Iraq and Syria, the very possibility of any positive outcome sometimes seems remote.

The Looting Machine Called CapitalismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment. In other words, capitalists make profits because their costs are externalized and born by others. In the US, society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.

The Lost History of AntifaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 201772 years after the triumph over Nazism, we look back to postwar Germany, when socialists gave birth to Antifa.

The Lost Traveller's DreamA Memoir Resource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017A memoir of Kovel's first 80 years, from his early Jewish upbringing, his academic career, to his embracing of Marxist political economy and commitment to radical ecosocialism.

Lynching Free SpeechResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In Charlottesville, as in so many parts of the country right now, the conflict is over how to reconcile the nation's checkered past, particularly as it relates to slavery, with the present need to sanitize the environment of anything -- words and images -- that might cause offense, especially if it's a Confederate flag or monument.

The Lynching of Ted SmithResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An account of the brutal slaying of Ted Smith, an African American teen who was burned at the stake by a mob of white men in Greenville, Texas on July 28, 1908.

Lynne Stewart: 1939-2017Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Radical attorney Lynne Stewart died in Brooklyn on March 7, 2017 at the age of 77. The immediate cause was a series of strokes which, together with metastasized breast cancer, finally drained the life out of this tireless fighter for the oppressed. Lynne's death will be keenly felt by the incarcerated opponents of the U.S. government, for whom she fought until the end. Without her, the world is a lonelier, crueler place for these prisoners and their families.

MA Stops Charter School ExpansionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Despite their $24 million, the charter forces - which in March had more than a 20-point lead in the polls - lost by an amazing 24 points, 62% to 38%.

The Madder Trump Gets, the More Seriously the World Takes HimResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The more dangerous America's crackpot President becomes, the saner the world believes him to be. Just look back at the initial half of his first 100 days: the crazed tweeting, the lies, the fantasies and self-regard of this misogynist leader of the Western world appalled all of us. But the moment he went to war in Yemen, fired missiles at Syria and bombed Afghanistan, even the US media Trump had so ferociously condemned began to treat him with respect. And so did the rest of the world.

The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National SovereigntyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The 2017 French Presidential election marks a profound change in European political alignments. There is an ongoing shift from the traditional left-right rivalry to opposition between globalization, in the form of the European Union (EU), and national sovereignty.

Mainstream News And USA's Heroics In VietnamWhy The Silence About The 7 Million Dead?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An account of the media's role in suppressing information about US military actions in Indochina from the 1940s and onward, and how the same tactics persist in the present.

Major Challenges of New Orleans Charter Schools Exposed at NAACP HearingResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017New Orleans is the nation's largest and most complete experiment in charter schools. After Hurricane Katrina, the State of Louisiana took control of public schools in New Orleans and launched a nearly complete transformation of a public school system into a system of charter schools.

Making Nuclear Weapons Usuable AgainResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A chilling look at the urge of both President Trump and key figures in the Pentagon to normalize nuclear weapons as a basic war-fighting tool in the American arsenal.

The Making of the Muslim WorldResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Review of Christopher de Bellaigue's 'The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason', Cemil Aydin's 'The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History' and Tariq Ramadan's 'Islam: The Essentials'.

Making Their Own HistoryA People's History of Modern EuropeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of William A. Pelz's A People's History of Modern Europe.

Making Trump's America UngovernableResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The goal of opponents, including those of the far left, should be to make the Trump presidency ungovernable. In that struggle revolutionary change is possible.

Manifesto for the Green MindJules Pretty sets out a plan to engage people with Nature and create more sustainable and enjoyable living for everyone.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Jules Pretty sets out a plan to engage people with Nature and create more sustainable and enjoyable living for everyone. The first call to action is: "Every child outdoors every day".

Manufactured ConsentPower, Media and ThinktanksResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Corporations don't just shape our politics or economics, they also seek to change public opinion to serve their interests. Which corporations play the biggest role in shaping knowledge and news? What do they fund? Who do they represent? What role have they played in the rise of authoritarian populists? This infographic for State of Power 2017 exposes those 'manufacturing consent'.

Marching for Science and HumanityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017On April 22, 2017 the March for Science took place in Washington DC, which I attended. It was a dreary rainy day that was lit up by the large crowd of scientists and concerned citizens gathered at the Washington Monument. The atmosphere was festive and defiant despite the weather.

Martin Luther the Man-DevilResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A review of the book 'Manteuffel' by Danish author and public intellectual Peter Tudvad, a work of popular fiction that also takes on religious and social-political issues.

Marx and Engels and the 'Red Chemist'The Forgotten Legacy of Carl SchorlemmerResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017New studies of Marxs long-unavailable notebooks, now being published in the massive Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (Marx-Engels Complete Works), decisively refute claims that Marx was uninterested in the natural sciences or considered them irrelevant to his politics.

Marx and Engels on ecology: A reply to radical critics Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A review of the book "Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique" authored by Paul Burkett and John Bellamy Foster, who respond to critics of ecological Marxism with a comprehensive examination of what the founders of historical materialism wrote and thought about mankind's relationship to the earth.

Marxism, the Arab Spring, and Islamic fundamentalismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017While Islamic fundamentalists are united by a reactionary worldview, the movements are not the same and must be approached differently. The Left must stake out an independent view based on democracy, social justice, equality, and liberation and freedom from oppression.

Marxism and the Earth: A defence of the classical traditionBook review of Marx and the Earth: An Anti-CritiqueResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Marxist analyses of the natural world have been the focus of intense debate recently, and the publication of any book that further explores what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels thought about the subject is something to be welcomed. John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett have proven track records of writing some of the clearest books on the subject, and while Marx and the Earth is not a specific response to some of their recent critics, it is an important defence of Marxs and Engelss original work.

Marxism: an Introduction to a Misunderstood PhilosophyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An introduction to fundamental principles of Marxism, and and examination of how these principles have been misrepresented by dictators and war criminals, leading to widespread misunderstanding.

Marxist Theories of the State Played out in VenezuelaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The implications of Marxist state theories developed by Nicos Poulantzas and Ralph Miliband are useful for framing issues related to leftist strategy in twenty-first century Venezuela.

Marx's Capital at 150History in Capital, Capital in HistoryResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A look at Karl Marx's historic book 'Capital' Volume 1 on the 150th anniversary of publication, its historical significance and influence, and what it means for those who read the book today.

Media Promote Baseless Assertions By Government Officials Of Russian Interference As FactsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The headline of a New York Times article published April 6, 2017, "C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed," misleadingly implies not only that there was an effort by the Russian government to help Donald Trump win the American presidential election but that it is a settled fact that the CIA was in possession of hard evidence to that effect.

Media Review: Fake NewsResource Type: Film/VideoFirst Published: 2017Richard Seymour looks at the current debate around 'fake news'. What does the term refer to and is it as new as we think?

MediaSources.caResource Type: WebsiteFirst Published: 2017A web portal featuring resources about media and the media industry, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.

Memento Mori: a Requiem for Puerto RicoResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Puerto Rico is dying. Let those words sink in.Three and a half million people are without power, water, fuel, food, and support. This isnt some uninhabited atoll.

Memory Against Forgetting: the Resonance of Bloody SundayResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The museum John guards is a physical manifestation of the moral necessity of remembering that days cataclysmic violence. An attempt to remember the silences imposed on peoples experiences by time and traumatised memory, and, most of all, murderous rampage. And of course, if those left behind do not remember who will? It certainly will not be the guilty.

Mexican Journalists Say 'No to Silence'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In Mexico powerful entities -- ranging from government officials, to law enforcement, to drug cartel leaders -- routinely and systematically intimidate journalists and media outlets to prevent them from investigating state corruption and drug-related violence. Efforts to silence media often take place in the shadows, forcing victims to choose between self-censorship, forced displacement, or risking their lives for doing their jobs.

Militant Hope in the Age of TrumpResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Debates over whether Donald Trump was a fascist or Hillary Clinton was a right-wing warmonger and tool of Wall Street were a tactical diversion. The real questions that should have been debated include: What measures could have been taken to prevent the United States from sliding further into a distinctive form of authoritarianism?

The Militarized Police State Opens FireResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Police and government agents are often left out of the conversation on gun violence, despite being among the greatest purpotrators of gun violence in America.

The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis' Free Speech Rights in Charlottesville Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017You can fight fascism by employing and championing one of its defining traits: viewpoint-based state censorship. those who favor free speech suppression, or who oppose the ACLUs universal defense of speech rights, will create results that are the exact opposite of those they claim to want. Its an indescribably misguided strategy that will inevitably victimize themselves and their own views.

'Modi is God's gift to Pakistan security establishment'Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif talks about shrinking freedoms, liberal voices and human rights in Balochistan.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Mohammed Hanif is a Pakistani journalist and writer. In an interview with Al Jazeera he talks about the shrinking freedoms in mainstream and social media in Pakistan, the role of liberal voices and the state of human rights in Balochistan.

Monbiot Still Can't Admit Media's Core ProblemResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017After more than two decades at the Guardian, George Monbiot has finally written a column in which he concedes that the entire British media has a problem, including its supposedly left-liberal elements like the Guardian.

The Moral Corrosion of Drone WarfareResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Jerry Berrigan Brigade, named after Syracuse peacemaker Jerry Berrigan, were called to court for their nonviolent witness against drone warfare at the state-side drone base Hancock.

More on the Red ChemistResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017More on the important role that the eminent chemist Carl Schorlemmer played in the development of Marx and Engels' understanding of the natural sciences.

The Most Moral Army?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017War is the realm of killing and destroying. How is it possible to talk about a law of war when war itself breaks all laws? An army that trains its soldiers to kill, how can it demand from them to show mercy?

Mothers and Children FirstResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An interactive report on mothers and child bearing in Bolivia where deaths are highest among indigenous populations. This report looks at the efforts by doctors, indigenous midwives and healers who are collaborating in what is being called 'intercultural health care'.

Mourn Liu Xiaobo, Free Liu XiaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Assessment of the death of Chinese political prisoner Liu Xiaobo, as well as the house arrest of his wife, Liu Xia.

Murder at the Algiers MotelResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The following account is abridged from an anthology, Detroit 1967, just published by Wayne State Press. McGuire has uncovered material that hadn't previously come to light.

The Murder of Kevin CooperResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017I, Kevin Cooper, have been on death row in the state on California for 32 years, going on 33. I came to this place in May of 1985, and I have been fighting for my life ever since.

My Coal Childhood: Lessons From Germany's Mine Pit LakesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A personal account of living near a coal mine in the Lausitz region of Germany, where extensive mining has severely damaged the environment and current 'solutions' are creating even further challenges.

My LaiVietnam, 1968, and the Descent into DarknessResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017Jones shows how pivotal the My Lai massacre was in galvanizing opposition to the Vietnam War, playing a part nearly as significant as that of the Tet Offensive and the Cambodian bombing. For many, it undermined any pretense of American moral superiority, calling into question not only the conduct of the war but the justification for U.S. involvement.

My Stealthy Freedom: The Hijab in Iran and in the WestResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An interview with Masih Alinejad, an outspoken critic of the forced hijab policy in Iran, about how the Islamic Revolution affected women, compulsory hijab laws, and her activism.

The Myth of 'Cultural Appropriation' Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Arguing that certain people dont have the right to tell certain stories is a distraction from the real menace: inequality.

The myth of one Jewish nationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Zionism is an anti-Semitic creed. It was so right from the beginning. Already the founding father, Theodor Herzl, a Viennese writer, penned some pieces with a clear anti-Semitic slant. For him, Zionism was not just a geographical transplantation, but also a means of turning the despicable commercial Jew of the diaspora into an upright, industrious human being.

The Nat Turner Rebellion and the Fight Against Slavery - Part 2Black History and the Class StruggleResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Nat Turners 1831 revolt in Virginia tears apart the myth that there is no history of slave rebellion or resistance in colonial America or the United States. This is a lie often promoted by racist apologists for American slavery. But it is also untrue to think that the U.S. has a history of slave rebellions similar to the massive uprisings that convulsed the Caribbean, most notably the Haitian Revolution.

The Nat Turner Rebellion and the Fight Against Slavery - Part OneBlack History and the Class StruggleResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In 1831, American slaveowners learned what it means to have the fear of God put into them. In August of that year, an insurrection was launched by rebel slaves led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia. Before their suppression, the rebels killed up to 60 whites in the course of a few days -- the highest number to die in a slave uprising in the U.S. It was the unmistakable justice and vengeance of revolutionary terror. And it was met with the reactionary terror of the slaveowners.

Native Seeds Sustain Brazil's Semi-Arid NortheastResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017More than a thousand homes that serve as "seed banks", and 20,000 participating families, make up the network organised by ASA to preserve the genetic heritage and diversity of crops adapted to the climate and semi-arid soil in Brazils Northeast.

The Need to Radicalise the Bolivarian RevolutionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Through an interview with Jorge Martín, the secretary of the Hands Off Venezuela solidarity campaign, the events leading to the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela are examined.

The Neoliberalism Order Begins to CrackResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Western ruling classes are now beginning to suffer political payback for 40 years of neoliberalism and nearly ten years of economic crisis.

Netizen Report: Why Did YouTube Censor Your Videos? You May Never Know.Global Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights arResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Amid an apparent shift in YouTubes approach to monitoring for rules violations and staying in the good graces of advertisers, a wave of YouTube users have found their work either blocked or relegated to "restricted" mode in recent months.

Newspaper Owned By Fracking Billionaire Leaks Memo Calling Pipeline Opponents Potential "Terrorists"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has produced a report titled, "Potential Domestic Terrorist Threats to Multi-State Diamond Pipeline Construction Project," dated April 7, 2017. The DHS field analysis report points to lessons from policing the Dakota Access pipeline, saying they can be applied to the ongoing controversy over the Diamond pipeline, which, when complete, will stretch from Cushing, Oklahoma to Memphis, Tennessee. While lacking "credible information" of such a potential threat, DHS concluded that "the most likely potential domestic terrorist threat to the Diamond Pipeline is from environmental rights extremists motivated by resentment over perceived environmental destruction."

No Ban! No Wall! No War?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The corporate media avoids connecting our wars to Trump's ban because war and empire is a matter of agreement among the political elites, an elite that the corporate media is very much a part of.

No, US Didn't 'Stand By' Indonesian Genocide - It Actively ParticipatedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Within the coverage of the newly declassified telegram that proves the US actively participated in the Indonesian genocide the media frames Washington as a passive onlooker rather than active participant. This not only lessens the government's culpability; it also tells readers that if the US is to be faulted, it's to be blamed for not doing enough. That's a handy attitude to cultivate for the next time you want to sell a "humanitarian" war.

Noam Chomsky And The BBC: A Brief ComparisonResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A recent interview with 88-year-old Noam Chomsky once again demonstrates just how insightful he is in providing rational analysis of Western power and the suffering it generates. By contrast, anyone relying on BBC News receives a power-friendly view of the world, systematically distorted in a way that allows the state and private interests to pursue business as usual.

Noam Chomsky: Trump's First 100 Days Are Undermining Our Prospects for SurvivalResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017No recent US president has demonstrated such an overwhelming ignorance about governing as the current occupant of the White House. But is Trump's apparent inability to govern and conduct himself in a remotely conventional manner an innate character flaw or part of a well-conceived strategy aimed at a society that loves reality TV? In this exclusive Truthout interview, Noam Chomsky shares his views about the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

Noam Chomsky: US Is the "Most Dangerous Country in the World"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Nuclear proliferation and climate change are subjects of acute concern in the current moment, driven into an all-out state of emergency by the new Trump administration. In this interview, Noam Chomsky discusses the media coverage of these two major issues, highlighting US tensions with Russia, Iran and North Korea, as well as discussing the recent US airstrike on Syria's Air Force base.

Noise, the 'ignored pollutant': health, nature and ecopsychologyThe sonic backdrop to our lives is increasingly one of unwanted technospheric noise, writes Paul Mobbs. Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017For those who like to enjoy the natural environment, noise is something to be escaped from within the relative sanctuary of the landscape. These days that's getting harder and harder to accomplish. That's not only because of noise from all around - in particular from urban areas, roads and the increasing mechanisation of agriculture - but also due to the increasing level of air traffic overhead.

The North Korea Standoff, Like the Cuban Missile Crisis, Exposes the Reckless U.S. WorldviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The confrontation between the U.S. and North Korea has cooled off slightly with Kim Jong-un's announcement that, at least for the time being, he will not attack Guam with an "enveloping fire." A good place to start is with the repeated comparisons U.S. politicians have made between the situation with North Korea and the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962.

Not by Bread AloneResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War focused on people's daily needs--who doesn't love hot, buttered toast? People in Spain were starving--they needed food. People--were homeless and needed homes; people were jobless and needed something to do; people were rejected from their communities needed to be included. Anarchists focused on these practical, attainable and above all human needs. And, these are the basic rights that should undergird all human social organizations.

Notes on a factory uprising in YangonResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Examination of a recent strike and riot at a Chinese-owned H&M supplier in Myanmar (Burma), looking beyond the headlines into its local context and broader political significance.

The NRA's Latest Terrorist Attack on U.S. SoilResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017It's long past time to start understanding the giant mass shootings that have become part of the new-normal fabric of life in the United States as terrorist attacks on the U.S. populace conducted by the nations plutocracy through one of its key and rightward campaign funding, lobbying, and policy organizations -- the National Rifle Association (NRA).

NSA's Cyberwarfare BlowbackResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In May and June 2017, hackers took over thousands of computers around the world, encrypted their contents, and demanded ransom to decrypt them. They used tools developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) to exploit vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows operating system.

The Nuclear Enterprise Is on AutopilotCounterSpin interview with William Hartung on nuclear overkillResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Janine Jackson interviewed William Hartung about nuclear overkill for the November 17, 2017, episode of CounterSpin.

Obama's Legacy and the Rise of TrumpResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017So much has been written about why Donald Trump won the presidency and the anger of the white working class. White supremacists are overjoyed by his victory. Much less is written or discussed about the failures of liberalism and the Obama presidency for Blacks and other minorities who voted for Hillary Clinton as a lesser evil.

Occupation capturedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Photos of Palestinian life and Israeli occupation in the West Bank city of Hebron.

Occupy: The Fall of the Oakland CommuneResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017For many people, the Occupy movement was an initiation into radical politics, an experiment in decentralized and nonhierarchical movement-building, and a glimpse at the possibility for a new kind of society. Yet the whole thing was over in just a few weeks -- a crisis quieted, a moment of hope extinguished.

Of Hegel and Bernie Sanders Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017My concern is not with Bernie Sanders (basically a New Deal liberal) but with the social dynamics of the Sanders phenomenon. What is going on when we see a surge of mass support for someone who identifies himself (however inaccurately) with socialism? What is the social process driving this unexpected shift in political goals and ideas toward the left? What lies behind the re-entry of socialism into the mass vocabulary of political life?

The Ohio Vote in NovemberResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Donald Trump won Ohio because the total Democratic vote declined more than the drop in the total two-party vote, and significantly more than the Republican increase.

Oil and WaterResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A collection of articles charting how leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.

On Catalonia: Debates in the Greek LeftResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Without the burden of self-censorship or "political correctness" on our backs, let us examine what the possible secession of Catalonia actually means and where it could potentially lead.

On Hidden Cultural CorruptorsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The educational institution and military institution both purport to be a source of the nation's highest values, yet they often corrupt and bring out the worst qualities in American citizens.

On Movement and FreedomTales of Enduring TransienceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Canada-based artist Gita Hashemi embarks on a ground journey from Germany to Greece along the so-called "Balkan route." In this written account Hashemi meets with others who are also on the move, as well as artists and activists who support freedom of movement and refugee rights. It is part of an art project called "On the Move" about freedom of movement.

On the Grenfell Towers FireResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Still working on things in relation to Grenfell as something that belongs to a more long-term development -- if you like, a culmination of so many cover-ups since the advent of brutalised Thatcherism as the neoliberal agenda unfolded during the last 40 years or so.

On the Intolerant LeftResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Julian Vigo's concern with the growing pattern of intellectual and political intolerance he's witnessed within allegedly progressive circles.

One Half-Cheer for Trump?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017June 1, 2017, Donald Trump announced that "The United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord," setting off alarm bells and outraged protests in U.S. cities and around the world. We would suggest that under present circumstances, he chose the better - well, less bad - of the existing options.

One Hundred Years of the Balfour DeclarationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Balfour Declaration then not only legitimized the Zionist project in Palestine and transformed it into a contender in international relations. It in effect precipitated the spread of Zionism among British Jews.

Ontario man publishes coal-mining novelWilliam Pancoast recently published his fifth book, "The Road to Matewan."Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017William Pancoast likes to call his writing working-class literature for the working class. The Galion native recently published his fifth book, "The Road to Matewan." The novel includes history from a turbulent time in West Virginia history. The Battle of Matewan, also known as the Matewan Massacre, involved a May 19, 1920, shootout in Mingo County.

The Ordeal of Hassan DiabResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Sociology professor and Canadian citizen Hassan Diab was wrongfully arrested and extradiated to France in 2008. To this day the Canadian government is silent on the events.

The Ordeal of MigrantsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Migrants face prejudices, xenophobia and racism, besides bureaucratic obstacles that do not recognize their qualifications.

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 22, 2017DisobedienceResource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2017Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey. Disobedience is the theme of this issue.

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017Race and ClassResource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2017Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class, in particular, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017Public TransitResource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2017Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many of these struggles is the idea that transit should be free, that is, paid for not by fares, but out of general revenues. This is how roads are normally funded: their construction and maintenance are paid for by taxes, rarely by user fees. Free public transit by itself would not be enough, however. We also need good transit, transit that runs frequently and goes where people want to go.

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017April 1 issueResource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2017Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critically - and enjoy.

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOsResource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2017What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017Resisting InjusticeResource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2017In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers&#8217; strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017Secrecy and PowerResource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2017Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017Official EnemiesResource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2017Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 9, 2017Meeting the Challenge of the RightResource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2017Challenging the Right requires not only anti-fascist actions in the street, but organizing to reach those who may be attracted the the appeal of the Right and offering an alternative social vision. This issue of Other Voices offers a number of articles, books, and films offering different perspectives on meeting the challenge of the right.

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017Collective Memory and Cultural AmnesiaResource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2017Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 11, 2017Left PartiesResource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2017In recent years, there have been repeated attempts to build left political parties and coalitions, i.e. parties to the left of the established social democratic parties which have long become part of the neoliberal capitalist mainstream. Left parties have emerged out of mass movements in countries like Spain (Podemos), Germany (Die Linke), and Greece (Syriza). In Latin America, in the last two decades, left movements or parties have formed governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay. What these new left parties/movements have in common is a strategy of engaging in grassroots organizing and also running in elections. They all describe themselves as socialist, though in many cases their programs are more reminiscent of what social democrats used to advocate decades ago: reforms that would tame and manage capitalism rather than abolish it. Their ultimate vision may be a world without capitalism, but their immediate proposals are more modest and incremental, though still significantly to the left of the neo-liberal consensus.

Over the RiverReturning home to FlintResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Author Richard Manning returns to his childhood home of Flint, Michigan and recounts the city's decline from thriving industry into an economic depression, from which the city has never recovered. Flint is left with an eroded infrastructure, neighbourhoods rife with crime and public health emergencies, and the decades old question of how will it ever recover.

Palestine: Another Desperate Cry for HelpResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine (NCCOP) has just issued a final plea for help in the form of an open letter to the World Council of Churches and the ecumenical movement.

Palestine Museum of Natural HistoryResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Palestine Museum of Natural History provides testimony to the Palestinian attachment to the land, for preservation of plant and animal life, as well as cultural expression and identity to the Palestinian community.

Palestinian Human Rights Defender Arrested for a Facebook PostResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Palestinian Authority (PA) is continuing its crackdown on free speech in the West Bank, this time arresting prominent Palestinian human rights activist Issa Amro for criticizing a journalist's arrest in a Facebook post.

Palestinians have a legal right to armed struggleIt's time for Israel to accept that as an occupied people, Palestinians have a right to resist - in every way possible. Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017International law recognises the fundamental rights to self-determination, freedom and independence for the occupied. For Palestinians that includes the right to armed struggle.

A Partial Peace in ColombiaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Colombia's peace accord serves capitalist interests, but may also open new space for the grassroots left.

The People are Not the Enemy: Police Anarchy in AmericaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017With alarming regularity unarmed American men, women, children and even pets are dying at the hands of police who are trained to shoot first and ask questions later, yet government seems to do little to resolve this crisis in policing.

People are radicalizing Venezuela's Revolution: An interview with Christina SchiavoniResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In this interview Christina Schiavoni, a researcher and food sovereignty activist, provides a different view of the life of the Venezuelan people than we normally get from the media. The interview covers food and health situations as well as on-going politics and people's participation in the politics.

The People vs. Big OilRefinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American CityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Steve Early's Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City.

A people's history of EnglandResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A posting which attaches in pdf format the 1938 work by AL Morton outlining the most important turning points of British history.

Peter Maurin's Vision for the Catholic Worker, an Idea Whose Time has ComeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Today it seems obvious that a return to the land, to a proper relationship with creation and to meaningful, productive work is integral to the aims of the Catholic Worker movement. For much of its history, however, since its beginning in 1933, this aspect of its founder's original intentions was relegated to the margins of an already marginal movement.

The Philipinnes: War Against the PoorResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017President Rodrigo Roa Duterte is responsible for a so-called "war on drugs" that is costing thousands of lives and is increasingly concentrating power in his own hands.

Philippines: Walden Bello on fighting fascismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Walden Bello at the National Anti-Dictatorship Conference, University of the Philippines, outlines the key elements of an anti-dictatorship program.

The Plague of NationalismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Catalan nationalists insist that "self-determination" is an inalienable right and cannot be curbed by the Spanish Constitution. Well, then, why stop with an "autonomous community" as Catalonia is designated? Why dont provinces everywhere have the right to declare their independence? How about cities? Or neighbourhoods?

The Plant Next DoorA Louisiana Town Plagued by Pollution Shows Why Cuts to the EPA Will Be Measured in Illnesses and DeathsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017When the Environmental Protection Agency informed people in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, last July that the local neoprene plant was emitting a chemical that gave them the highest risk of cancer from air pollution in the country, the information was received not just with horror and sadness but also with a certain sense of validation.

Playing Chicken: Discovering a Diverse Working Class in Trump CountryResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Since the election of 2016, much has been written about rural working-class voters who helped elect Donald J. Trump to the presidency. Most of those stories have assumed that the rural working class is overwhelmingly white. But if we look at one of the most significant parts of the rural economy  the poultry industry  we get a different picture. Not only do we see more workers of color, we also see more exploitation and greater potential for resistance.

The Plot to Scapegoat RussiaHow the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify PutinResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017An in-depth look at the decades-long effort to escalate hostilities with Russia and what it portends for the future.

Podemos, Catalonia and the workers' movement in the Spanish stateResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Following a long period of electoral upheaval and failure of the left, it is argued that the two key areas where the Spanish ruling class could have been confronted was through the workers' movement and the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, both of which were not sufficiently addressed by the Podemos campaign.

Poison in the Fields: Agriculture as Chemical WarfareResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Highly poisonous chemicals ( that were originally designed as weapons of war) have been allowed for many decades, under successive Government policies, to be sprayed on crop fields all over the UK, and with literally no protection at all for the many millions of rural citizens living or attending schools in the locality of such chemically treated areas. (In fact, there is actually no protection for rural residents and communities in the majority of other countries around the world either!)

Poison Papers Snapshot: HOJO Transcript Illustrates EPA Collusion With Chemical IndustryResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A commentary on the "Poison papers", chemical industry and regulatory agency documents and correspondence stretching back decades, which shed light on what was known about chemical toxicity and practices in the often-incriminating words of the participants themselves, and which still have implications for us today.

Poland's Solidarity and Its FateSeeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution: Solidarity and the Struggle against Communism in PolandResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Jack Bloom's Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution: Solidarity and the Struggle against Communism in Poland.

The police are not here to protect youResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017It is a liberal fantasy that policing exist to protect us from the bad guys, rather it serves more to manage and suppress those on the losing end of economic and political arrangements.

The police are not here to protect youResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The police spend little of their time making arrests, and most crimes are not solved, writes Alex Vitale - their real purpose is social control

The Politcal Economy of FascismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017For all of the millions of words written about the fascist danger posed by Donald Trump, there are very few devoted to an actual analysis of fascist economics both as ideology and state policy.

Political Prisoners Remain Behind Bars as Obama's Term Nears EndResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In the last full week of Barack Obama's eight year tenure as President of the United States of America, dozens of political prisoners still sit in cages across the nation's prisons, rotting away as Obama consciously chooses not to exercise the power to simply free them with the stroke of a pen.

The Politics of Some BodiesThe Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the IntersectionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Holly Lewis' The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection.

The Politics of Terror Mirrors the Politics of HeroinResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017While terrorist activities of ISIS in the West are describes as blowback. a more sinister connection than guilt by association comes to the surface if we analyse Western elite behaviour elsewhere.

Politics Without PoliticsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Jonathan Smucker's recently published book Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals offers a flawed road map for rebuilding the Left.

Lillian PollakResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Activist, revolutionary socialist and writer Lillian Pollak died in New York City at the age of 101.

The Popular Front Didn't WorkResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Communist Party's 1930s popular front strategy weakened the labour movement and empowered the Democratic Party, a strategy that would be even more destuctive to the socialist left today.

The Popular Front Didn't WorkResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017This article focuses on the recent growth of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Through a historical overview of worker's parties in the United States, the article discusses the party's vision for the future.

Power and Protest: The Electoral Tactics of Leftist Social MovementsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The central difficulty for left social movements is determining electoral tactics that will enable them to win both in the short run and in the middle run. On the surface, it seems that winning in the short run conflicts with winning in the middle run.

Power to the SovietsBook Review of October: The Story of the Russian RevolutionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of China Miéville's October: The Story of the Russian Revolution.

Preferred Conclusions -- The BBC, Syria And VenezuelaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In 2013, it was remarkable to see the BBC reporting claims from Syria on a daily basis in a way that almost always blamed the Syrian government, and President Assad personally, for horrendous war crimes. But as the New York Times reported last month, the picture was rather less black and white.

Presidio mutinyWikipedia articleResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Presidio mutiny was a sit-down protest carried out by 27 prisoners at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco, California on October 14, 1968. The stiff sentences given out at courts martial for the participants (known as the Presidio 27) attracted attention to the extent of sentiment against the Vietnam War in the armed forces.

Pride parade in Vancouver rejects Iranian over veil floatResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Iranian Shawn Shirazi and his group Cirque de So Gay were denied entry to the Pride Parade in Vancouver, Canada this year because their float criticising the veil was deemed to be 'culturally [in]sensitive'.

Principles of OrganizingResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Explores the culture of organizing, the challenging and confusing dialectical tension that is every organizers terrain: change and continuity, the personal and the political, ideals and interests, planning and opportunity, and the transitions from evolutionary to revolutionary forms of unionism.

The problem is more than integrationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Polls show that minorities, and Muslims in particular, have a greater attachment to Britain than does the population at large. They also show that nine out of ten Britons think that their community is cohesive, and local area a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together. According to Casey this figure has increased (from 80 per cent to 89 per cent) since 2003. Britons, in other words, have become more positive about social cohesion in the very period in which uncontrolled immigration has supposedly eroded peoples sense of community and belonging.

The problem with identity politicsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An examination of identity politics, and how experience alone is an inadequate foundation from which to develop an analysis of oppression or to devise political strategies to end it.

The Promises and Limitations of Radical Local PoliticsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Steve Early's most recent book, Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of An American City (Beacon Press), describes the building of a what is very likely the most successful progressive political organization, The Richmond Progressive Alliance, in the United States, in Richmond, California, a blue collar city long dominated by Chevron Corp.

Propaganda, Fake News, and Media LiesThe Diabolical Business of Global Public Relations FirmsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The PRP industry has experienced phenomenal growth since 2001. In 2015, three publicly traded mega PR firms -- Omnicom, WPP, and Interpublic Group -- together employed 214,000 people across 170 countries, collecting $35 billion in combined revenue. Not only do these firms control massive wealth, they also possess a network of connections in powerful international institutions with direct links to national governments, multi-national corporations, global policy-making bodies, and the corporate media.

Propaganda and Lies, Canadian StyleResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017As Canadian politicians speak freely and with less accountability on international affairs, indiviuals need to educate themselves on international issues and through alternative sources of information.

The Prophet: Deutscher's TrotskyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Old Testament prophets belonged to a religious order devoted to the study of sacred texts, which they interpreted, and from which they proclaimed the obligations of the leaders of their nation to the people. From these scriptures they envisioned the coming of the Messiah, who would usher in an era of justice and goodwill toward men.

Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free SpeechResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017US authorities are reported to have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This overreach of US government toward a publisher is another sign of a crumbling façade of democracy.

Protest Alone Won't Stop Fascism Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Desperate people are vulnerable to fascism, and the desperation is deepening: millions are eyeball deep in debt and 80% live paycheck to paycheck, while skyrocketing healthcare costs and rising rent heat up the social pressure cooker. It's this economic gut punch that the fascists hope to benefit from: as working people struggle to breathe the fascists hope to offer cheap, ready-made oxygen.

PublicitySources.comResource Type: WebsiteFirst Published: 2017A web portal featuring publicity and PR resources, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.

Race and the Real CaliforniaThe Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust BowlResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Sarah D. Wald's The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl.

Race v. Class? More Brilliant Bourgeois Bullshit from Ta-Nehesi Coates Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Coates is either flat-out lying or woefully ignorant when he argues that "the left" is disinterested in the big and significant problems of racial identity and racial justice. The longstanding legitimately Left progressive agenda addresses both race and class at one and the time. It does not accept Coates' false dichotomy between class and race.

The racist worldview of Arthur BalfourResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A look at British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, whose Declaration of 1917 led to the expulsion of Palestinians.

Radical Ruptures Emerging from Global WageworkersResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The following notes were the basis of a contribution to the internationalist communist summer meeting organized by TPTG, Underground Tunnel and friends, July 1117, 2017, in Greece.

Radical White Workers During the Last RevolutionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The long-lost story of anti-racist, radical white working class activism has been restored by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy in their invaluable book: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times.

Ragpicking Through History: Class Memory, Class Struggle and its Archivists Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Our current conjuncture invites a renewed rethinking of two historical imaginaries: first, what is class memory? To ask this question is really to reopen a discussion on what is class struggle  and, more specifically, how does our collective memorialisation of struggles past inform our relationship to struggle in the present. Second, and relatedly, who can be this struggle's archivist?

Rainbow Coalition or Class War?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Is there any reason to think that Redneck Revolt and the new Rainbow Coalition will turn out differently from the People's Party? American history shows that any political group, left, right or center, that fails to challenge in practice the white community and the institutions and patterns that maintain it will reinforce an identity that has led countless potentially progressive movements to ruin and whose capacity to do harm is by no means exhausted -- no matter how vigorously it denounces racism and capitalism and how many coalitions it enters with non-whites. Simply put, white people organized as whites are dangerous to the working class and to humanity, and white people with guns organized as whites are doubly so -- and this is true regardless of the intentions of the organizers.

The reactionary, class nature of left Academia todayResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Mellor challenges the idea that socialism is eurocentric and speaks to how capitalist exploitation and workers' resistance is fundamentally similar all over the world.

The Real Dads ArmyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Britain's wartime Home Guard is immortalized in popular culture -- but the socialists who shaped it are forgotten.

Real-Time Face Recognition Threatens to Turn Cops' Body Cameras Into Surveillance MachinesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017For years, the development of real-time face recognition has been hampered by poor video resolution, the angles of bodies in motion, and limited computing power. But as systems begin to transcend these technical barriers, they are also outpacing the development of policies to constrain them. Civil liberties advocates fear that the rise of real-time face recognition alongside the growing number of police body cameras creates the conditions for a perfect storm of mass surveillance.

The Realist: Irreverence Was Their Only Sacred CowResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Realist was a magazine both representative and counter to the times it existed in. Viciously satirical and usually aimed at power (like all good satire should be), it was neither liberal nor conservative, Democrat or Republican, communist, fascist or anything else in between. Its targets were religion, government, corporate America, popular and counter cultures, racism and imperialism. Very little was spared its pointed and often poison pen. The magazine lasted over forty years, from 1958 to 2001 and published a total of 146 issues.

Rebels Without a Cause: The Assault on Academic FreedomResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Examining current academic culture which falsely labels "words as violence" and how it is affecting acedemic freedom, notably by some who think of themselves as being on the left, who are employing totalitarian tactics which ultimately cause professional and economic harm.

The Reconciliation ManifestoRecovering the Land, Rebuilding the EconomyResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017A look at the historical and current relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians, and what needs to be done to accomplish true reconciliation.

A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and SocialismResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017As the Anthropocene advances, people across the red-green political spectrum seek to understand and halt our deepening ecological crisis. Environmentalists, scientists, and ecosocialists share concerns about the misuse and overuse of natural resources, but often differ on explanations and solutions.

Reflections on the way to the gallowsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A record from a short prison diary kept by Japanese anarchist and feminist Kanno Sugako prior to her execution in 1911 for her part in a plot to assassinate the Emperor.

Remembering PeekskillResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Peekskill Riots in 1949 remind us of a period of postwar rebellion and reaction that set the stage for the rest of the century.

Reporters face 70 years in prison over anti-Trump marchTwo journalists are among more than 200 people facing felony charges after mass arrests at Inauguration Day rally.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The actions of police during the inauguration of Donald Trump and arrest of over 230 people with threat of harsh penalties, including 70 years in prison for two journalists, is tantamount to criminalizing dissent.

Resistance and Resolve in Russia: Memorial HRCResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An account of the current climate for political dissent in Russia, describing the activities of and challenges faced by the Memorial Human Rights Centre, a Russian NGO.

Resistance to Antibiotics: The Good, The Bad and the UglyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The growing resistance to antibiotics and other antimicrobials due to their overuse and misuse both in humans and animals has become an alarming global threat to public health, food safety and security, causing the deaths of 700,000 people each year.

Resisting Capital's DisastersResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Trump represents the twisted and half-deranged face of a systemic assault on virtually every facet of the social safety net, workers' rights, and the entire public sector -- apart from the bloated permanent war economy.

Resolutions Advocating a Boycott of IsraelResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Modern Language Association (MLA) Delegate Assembly voted in Philadelphia on two resolutions, for and against, of an academic boycott of Israel.

Responding to Antifa and RiseupOn Revolutionary Politics and Non-ViolenceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017"The left" of contemporary 2017 America is deeply divided and fractured, and it is a shadow of its former self, considering the decline of organized labor, and the disappearance of left-public intellectuals in higher education. In this environment, what remains of "the left" desperately needs to reach out to the masses of Americans, including liberals, moderates, and political independents, and to pull them further to the left, if there is to be any chance of meaningful change. And berating anyone who is not perceived to be on the far left, rather than patiently working to bring these individuals into a broader left movement, is a recipe for irrelevance.

A Response To George Monbiot's 'Disavowal'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017There is a pattern of 'mainstream' media insisting on the need for war in response to unproven claims that are often later debunked.

A Response to the Anti-Defamation LeagueResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Anti-Defamation League's statement published in Detroit Jewish News (July 24, 2017, "Jewish Voice for Peace Increases Anti-Israel Radicalism") contains numerous distortions, which can't all be addressed in detail in the limited space available to us here.

Restricting Peoples Use of Their CourtsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In not so merry old medieval England, wrongful injuries between people either were suffered in silence or provoked revenge. Cooler heads began to prevail and courts of law were opened so such disputes over compensation and other remedies could be adjudicated under trial by jury.

Rethinking the challenge of anti-Muslim bigotry Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In 1997 the British anti-racist organisation the Runnymede Trust published its highly influential report Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All. Twenty years on, the Runnymede Trust has brought out a follow-up report Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us All, which is a stock-take on current views, and facts, about the issue.

Retired GM worker speaks on three years of the Flint water crisisResource Type: UnclassifiedFirst Published: 2017The poisoning of the city of Flint continues three long years after the decision was made by politicians and financial speculators to switch city residents to Flint River water. As the world now knows, the corrosive Flint River water leached lead from the antiquated piping system into the homes of residents. Lead is a deadly neurotoxin. Because next to nothing has yet been done to fix the citys infrastructure, even after the switch back to Detroit water, there is no safe water supply for thousands of residents.

The Return of Commercial Prison LabourResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Prisons are seldom mentioned under the rubric of labour market institutions such as temporary work contracts or collective bargaining agreements. Yet, prisons not only employ labour but also cast a shadow on the labour force in or out of work. The early labour movement considered the then prevalent use of prison labour for commercial purposes as unfair competition. By the 1930s, the U.S. labour movement was strong enough to have work for commercial purposes prohibited in prisons.

The Return of Engels Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017After Marx's death in 1883, Engels prepared volumes two and three of Capital for publication from the drafts his friend had left behind. If Engels, as he was the first to admit, stood in Marxs shadow, he was nevertheless an intellectual and political giant in his own right.

Revolution and the Color LineResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A review of the biography 'W.E.B. DuBois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line', by Bill Mullen, detailing the life of the influential author and organizer.

The Revolution PartyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The accumulating failures of both Communist and Social Democratic parties over the past 50 years was accompanied by a marked shift on the radical left toward a broad-ranging movementism  whether in its pressure-group or protest-oriented dimensions. As Jodi Dean has recently argued, those trying thereby to escape 'the constraints of party often reduced it to 'the actuality of its mistakes while its role as concentrator of collective aspirations and affects [was] diminished if not forgotten.'

Rigged. Forced into Debt. Worked past exhaustion. Left with nothing.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Port trucking companies in southern California have spent the past decade forcing drivers to finance their own trucks by taking on debt, which is then used as leverage to extract forced labor and trap drivers in jobs that leave them destitute.

The rising repression of social protest in Latin AmericaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017On 17 October, 2017, the corpse of Santiago Maldonado appeared in the Chubut River. The young activist had been missing for 80 days. The suspense surrounding Maldonados whereabouts aroused a great sense of unease in a country where the word disappeared brings to mind the 30,000 victims of the civic-military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

Rohingya and the Myth of Buddhist ToleranceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Since their citizenship rights have been progressively revoked between the 1940s and '80s, thousands of Rohingya men, women and children have been subjected to murder and rape, their villages have been raised to the ground and more than a million have fled to neighboring countries without much protest from the world beyond.

The Role of Science in Capitalist Society and Social ChangePart 1 of 2Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017With its Republican allies in Congress, the Trump administration plans to cut scientific programs while feeding more fuel into the ravenous, murderous, and imperialistic war machine of the United States. Trump's hate of scientists is clearly universal as demonstrated by the sanctioning of 271 Syrian scientists by the Treasury Department despite the fact these scientists have not engaged in any hostile acts aimed at the United States.

Russiagate and the Democratic Party are for ChumpsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Now Trump and the nation's 34 Republican governors get to wield the ever-expanding powers of the police state in a nation whose populace has lost faith in nearly every major U.S. institution but two: the military and the police. It's a militarized police-state the Democrats helped create.

The Russian Hack That Wasn'tResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept exposes the fake news put out by the US Department of Homeland Security (an euphemistic name for a Big Brother operation that spies on US citizens) that Russia hacked 21 US state elections, news that was instantly spread around the world by the presstitute media.

The Russian Hacking Story Continues to UnravelResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An examination of the text from a recent report by an IBM executive, which disproves the claim that Russia interfered in the US elections or hacked the servers at the DNC.

The Russian Revolution and Workers DemocracyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Russian Revolution of February and October 1917 opened up a new historical epoch, and was greeted with enthusiasm by workers around the world.

The Russian Revolution and the Emancipation of WomenPart OneResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 was the greatest victory for the world's working people and for all of the oppressed. The spark for the revolutionary upsurge was a mass outpouring of women in Petrograd on International Womens Day (IWD), March 8 (February 23 by the old Julian calendar). While in recent years bourgeois feminists have usurped IWD, in fact it is a workers' celebration that originated in 1908 among female needle trades workers in Manhattan.

Ryerson Made a Mistake in Cancelling Panel DiscussionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Not only are censorship and suppression fatal to the purpose of the university, they undermine the foundation of democratic society. When individual rights to freedom of expression are diminished or taken away for an allegedly good cause, they are necessarily invested in some higher authority that is given the right to determine what is acceptable. The result is censorship from above  ultimately the state  with the likelihood that the champions of that censorship today are its vulnerable targets tomorrow.

Sacred CodResource Type: Film/VideoFirst Published: 2017Sacred Cod is a feature-length documentary that captures the collapse of the historic cod population in New England, delving into the role of overfishing, the impact of climate change, the effect of government policies on fishermen and the fish, and the prospect of a region built on cod having no cod left to fish.

Sanders' Campaign & the Democratic PartyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Despite his many flaws, the Sanders campaign had a working-class, implicitly anti-capitalist flavor that garnered considerable support among those who might otherwise have voted for Trump, as many perhaps did.

Science for the People with the EZLNResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Zapatistas have been extremely clever in responding to the continual challenges (not without serious setbacks), both militarily and politically. They have not only survived over the past 23 years but prospered, in their own terms, and gained considerable popular appeal.

Scientists: protect vast Amazon peatland to avoid palm oil 'environmental disaster'A recently discovered peatland in northeast Peru contains two years worth of US carbon emissions, writes Joe Sandler Clarke, but it's under Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The peatland in Pastaza-Marañón Foreland Basin in northeast Peru - discovered in 2009 by Finnish scientist Outi Lähteenoja - is said to contain 3.14 gigatons of carbon, roughly equivalent to two years of CO2 emissions from the United States. Scientists have said that economic development in the region, like road-building and the arrival of commercial agriculture threatens the important ecosystem.

The Seeds of Agroecology and Common OwnershipResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017With platitudes about 'feeding the world', the corporate agribusiness/agritech industry is destroying the commons and democracy and displacing existing localised systems of food production. In fact the increasingly globalised industrial food system is responsible for some of the most pressing political, social and environmental crises we are facing.

The Seeds of Agroecology and Common OwnershipResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A political-economical critique of modern agriculture and the urgent need to establish societies run for the benefit of the mass of the population, as well as a system of food and agriculture that is more democratically owned and controlled.

Self-Censored Questions by Career QuestionersResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017I've always been intrigued by the major questions not asked by reporters at press conferences, not asked by legislators at public hearings or even the questions citizens at town meetings don't ask public officials. It's not that they do not know about or could not easily become informed enough about a given issue and ask substantive questions. It's just that so many taboos are packed into these questioners' ideological mindset, career goals or concern with what other people over them might think. Maybe it is a culturally-rooted fear of challenging entrenched power brokers.

Senators 'Stunned' to Learn US Has 1,000 Troops in NigerResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee members recently confirmed they were "stunned" by the revelation that the US had upwards of 1,000 ground troops operating inside the country of Niger, sparking new questions about war authorization.

The Serious Price of the Hyperconvenient EconomyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The rapid "progress" towards greater convenience will induce dependency, ignorance of the product and service and more loss of voice, self-determination and self-reliance.

The Sex Offender: the 21st Century WitchResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Looks at the status of a "sexual offender" in America, including sexual offender registries, as well as groups working against false accusations.

SexSources.caResource Type: WebsiteFirst Published: 2017A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.

Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking StoryResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh said in an interview that he does not believe the U.S. intelligence community proved its case that President Vladimir Putin directed a hacking campaign aimed at securing the election of Donald Trump. He blasted news organizations for lazily broadcasting the assertions of U.S. intelligence officials as established facts.

A Shameful Silence: Where is the Outrage Over the Slaughter of Civilians in Mosul?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The catastrophic number of civilian casualties in Mosul is receiving little attention internationally from politicians and journalists. This is in sharp contrast to the outrage expressed worldwide over the bombardment of east Aleppo by Syrian government and Russian forces at the end of 2016.

A Short History of Liberal Myths and Anti-Labor PoliticsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A history of how labour and working-class groups have been alienated or disserviced by the major US political parties, particularly by liberal policies which are primarily aligned with business interests.

Should You March Against Trump?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Yasmin Nair addresses the issue of whether or not to march against Donald Trump this week, or in the months and years following.

Silence in NGO DiscourseResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) maintain a ubiquitous presence in most peoples lives (whether they realize it or not). It therefore should be a commonsense act that we scrutinize NGO activities to ascertain their exact political function within the "our" neoliberal world order.

The Single Party French State ... as the Majority of Voters AbstainResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The victory of Macron's personal party, la République En Marche (REM), with an absolute majority of 350 out of 577 seats in the National Assembly, has bled the two traditional governing parties, the Republicans and the Socialists.

6 underrated Marxists who don't get enough loveResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A look at six less celebrated Marxists: Gavril Miasnikov, Ngo Van Xuyet, Clara Zetkin, Martin Glaberman, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, and Ambalavaner Sivanandan; who participated in working class movements such as the 1918 German revolution, the 1945 Saigon Commune and the strikes in the car factories of Detroit.

"The Slave-Holding Republic"Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican RepublicResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Gerald Horne's Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic.

Socialist Register 2018Volume 54: Rethinking DemocracyResource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)First Published: 2017We have conceived this 54th volume of the Socialist Register on Rethinking Democracy as a companion volume to the 2017 volume on Rethinking Revolution. As we put it in the preface to that volume: The "political event" of gaining state power, whether by taking parliament or in a collapse of the existing political regime, has proven time and again to be less crucial than the social revolution of building capacities for self-government and the democratization and socialization of institutional resources The "event", in itself, will never be a sufficient condition for the exploited and oppressed to build their own capacities for establishing collective, rather than competitive, ways of living through developing socialist democracy.'

Somebody's Going to Suffer: Greece's New Austerity MeasuresResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The European Commission announced on May 2, 2017, that an agreement on Greek pension and income tax reforms would pave the way for further discussions on debt release for Greece. The European Commission described this as good news for Greece. The Greek government described the situation in similar terms. It isn't.

South Asia: Murderous majoritiesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Drawing from essays and recent literature the author discusses the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Burma/Myanmar, and the broader historical context of majoritarian nationalism in South Asia where majoritarian violence has been a shortcut to power.

South Sudan: Volunteers Gather Names of South Sudan's Uncounted War DeadResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The names of 5,000 victims of violence appear in the "Remembering the Ones We Lost" project, a memorial to people who have died in seven decades of conflict.The project invites witnesses to submit details of killings or disappearances through an online form or by text message, the information is then collated by volunteers.

Spain Through Orwell's EyesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Eighty years ago, Barcelona's calamitous May Days sealed the fate of a worker-led social revolution. George Orwell was there to bear witness.

A Special ObscenityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Picasso painted Guernica eighty years ago this spring. It still stands as a searing protest against the brutality of war and fascism.

The Spirit of Late CapitalismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A look at Pentecostalism, one of the world's fastest growing religious movements, which preaches a seductive message to the marginalized: that religious prayer, not political action, is a solution to their earthly woes.

Squatters' 60-Year War Against Private PropertyHow propertied classes team up with the state to forcibly evict urban squatters.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Over the past 60 years, whenever squatters claimed homes in Western European and U.S. cities, even buildings long abandoned, the state used force to protect private property.

Sticks and Stones: Free Speech and Punching PoliticsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The author explains why he does not agree with those who believe that right wing 'facist' groups should be denied the right to express their views, either by physical means or force of law.

The Stomach-churning Violence of Monsanto, Bayer and the Argrochemical OligopolyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Companies like Monsanto, Bayer and Syngenta, which make up the oligopoly that controls an increasingly globalised system of modern food and agriculture, have successfully instituted the notion that the mass application of biocides, monocropping and industrial agriculture are necessary and desirable.

The Strange (and Tortured) Legacy of 'Free Speech'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Despite a well-cultivated radical image, Antifa rarely focuses on the growing ultra-nationalism, militarism, and imperialism that lies at the very core of American politics  tendencies in fact more dangerous than the rhetoric of Yiannopoulos, Coulter, and Shapiro. Beneath its ultra-leftism is a modus operandi riddled with the worst of identity politics. And since its violent tactics are not aligned with any popular movement, its opposition to fascism (such as it is) turns hollow, empty. The irony is that while the FSM and its heirs did everything possible to expand the realm of free speech, new social forces  extreme identity groups, Antifa  want to restrict or deny freedoms.

Strategic Thinking and Organizing ResistanceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Argues the need for strategy and vision, and effective organizing, in forming a resistance movement to the Trump presidency, and provides several suggestions for organizers.

Strike Friday at Amazon.itResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Amazon workers at the Castel San Giovanni hub launched their first strike on Black Friday 2017. The facility is Amazon's largest in Italy, where the retail giant employs up to four thousand workers, less than half of whom have a permanent contract.

Striking back in the "world's factory"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A review of Hao Ren, Eli Friedman and Zhongjin Li (editors), China on Strike: Narratives of Workers' Resistance, which gives a history of labour struggles of Chinese migrant workers.

"Superman Is Not Coming": Erin Brockovich on the Future of WaterResource Type: UnclassifiedFirst Published: 2017Come take a ride on America's toxic water slide: First stop: Flint, Michigan, where two years later, people are still contending with lead-laced water, which was finally detected by the EPA in February 2015 with the help of resident Lee Anne Walters. Next stop: California, where hundreds of wells have been contaminated with 1,2,3-TCP, a Big Oil-manufactured chemical present in pesticides.

Surrogacy: A Human Rights ViolationResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017According to Renate Klein, "pared down to cold hard facts, surrogacy is the commissioning/buying/ renting of a woman into whose womb an embryo is inserted and who thus becomes a 'breeder' for a third party."

Survival is the QuestionFacing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth SystemResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Ian Angus' Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System.

Survival? Symptoms of BreakdownResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Government policies are driven primarily by short-term political gain and corporate power, so there needs to be a massive public demand for control of the economy towards sustainability. The alternative is no human future.

Sweden's Potato RevolutionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Together with the other Nordic countries Sweden was spared from the First World War but suffered food shortages and other hardships due to the surrounding conflicts.

Symbols of ResistanceA Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chican@ MovementResource Type: Film/VideoFirst Published: 2017The documentary looks at the history of the Chicano and Chicana Movement in the 1970's; with a focus on Colorado and Northern New Mexico it explores the struggle for land, the student movement and community struggles against police repression. Runtime: 75 min.

Syria, 'Experts' and George MonbiotResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Investigative journalist Gareth Porter has published two exclusives whose import is far greater than may be immediately apparent. They concern Israels bombing in 2007 of a supposed nuclear plant secretly built, according to a self-serving US and Israeli narrative, by Syrian leader Bashar Assad.

The Syriza Wave: The Discussion Continues via Irish Marxist ReviewThe Discussion Continues via Irish Marxist ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The article is review of Helena Sheehan's book "The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left". Her book is an account of her polital activity and personal reflections during the surge of Syrzia from 2012 through 2015.

System of a DownResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Michael Roberts 'The Long Depression'.

Tabloids do not represent the working classResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017It should come as little surprise that media owned and run by unscrupulous billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Richard Desmond should be more concerned with protecting the party of big business than it is with the wellbeing or interests of working class people. We need to call out the tabloid media for what it is  run by and for the elites.

A Tale of Two Islands Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A look at the two island nations of Cuba and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes; one is a poor socialist state and the other a territory of one of the richest countries in the world.

Tasmania's Black War: a tragic case of lest we rememberResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Tasmanias Black War (1824-31) was the most intense frontier conflict in Australia's history. It was a clash between the most culturally and technologically dissimilar humans to have ever come into contact. At stake was nothing less than control of the country, and the survival of a people.

Tears of SolidarityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The story of Ann Atwater and Claiborne Paul (C. P.) Ellis is beautifully told in Osha Gray Davidson's book The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South. Atwater, a domestic worker whose parents were sharecroppers, was a civil rights activist in Durham, North Carolina. Ellis, the son of a millhand, was a janitor at Duke University and a local Klan leader. In 1971, after battling each other for years, Atwater and Ellis ended up co-chairing a ten-day public forum -- a "charrette," as it was called -- that brought together black and white community members to address problems in Durham's public schools. It was a fraught process.

Ten Examples of Direct Resistance to Stop Government RaidsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Resistance to unjust government action is the duty of all people who care about human rights. As Dr. King reminded us in his letter from a Birmingham jail, "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."

10 Questions for William BlumResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017"God forbid we should not have a Revolution every 20 years," Jefferson wrote. "The world belongs to the living," he believed, and each generation holds the world in "usufruct." In the United States in 2017, in this whirling age of instantaneous communication, gratification and frustration, TJ would probably Twitter something like: "Make that every 10 years!"

Ten Theses on Farming and Disease Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Theres a growing understanding of the functional relationships health, food justice, and the environment share. Theyre not just ticks on a checklist of good things capitalism shits on.

Terrorism: How the Israeli state was wonResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Transcript of a speech by the author on December 14, 2016 at the House of Lords, giving a history of the conflicts and terrorist tactics of Zionists in the formation of the state of Israel.

That Precious Strand of Jewishness that Challenges AuthorityResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017Like so many of those others in Britain of Jewish lineage, songwriter and award-winning folk singer Leon Rosselson is descended from antecedents who fled pogroms in eastern Europe. Pertinently, he questions what being a Jew means -- is it adherence to Judaism as a religion, an ethnicity, a citizen of Israel, or someone who eats "chicken soup with knedlach"? He describes clearly and with historical insight how any concept of "Jewishness" can involve all of those things and more. In his own life, he has decided to pick and choose from this tradition and history and build on what he deems to be the progressive, humane, and universalist values of that Jewish background.

The Venezuelan Opposition does not want Democracy or ElectionsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Interview with Jorge Martin, secretary of the "Hands Off Venezuela" solidarity campaign. The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela is facing its most challenging times. The right-wing opposition, backed by the United States, is engaged in a full-blown regime change campaign, with violent protests occurring daily and resulting in over 50 casualties. The chavista supporters of the government have also taken to the streets in defence of the Bolivarian Revolution, and President Maduro surprised everyone by calling for a Constituent Assembly. Jorge Martín, the secretary of the "Hands Off Venezuela" solidarity campaign, give his understanding of the sitution and where it might lead. He discusses how western media are distorting the reality and presenting a one-sided picture, the role of international solidarity, the lack of progress made by the opposition and where things might go from here.

Theodore W. Allen's LegacyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Theodore W. "Ted" Allen (1919-2005) was an anti-white supremacist, working-class intellectual and activist, whose work on the centrality of struggle against white supremacy is growing in importance and influene 98 years after his birth.

Theodore W. Allen: Working-Class ScholarResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Theodore W. Allen was an independent, anti-white supremacist, working-class scholar when he pioneered his "white skin privilege" analysis in the mid-1960s and when he wrote The Invention of the White Race in the 1990s.

These are the Israeli leaders who want to destroy al-AqsaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The recent violence at the al-Aqsa temple and subsequent response by Israeli leadership underscores the belief that the intent is to replace the Muslim holy site as part of the broader agenda of Israeli sovereignty.

33rd Anniversary Of The Bhopal Gas Leak DisasterResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The escape of about 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC)  a highly toxic chemical  from a storage tank on the premises of the pesticide plant of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) in Bhopal  the capital of the State of Madhya Pradesh  on the night of 02/03 December 1984 resulted in a horrendous disaster in the city, which was inhabited by about 900,000 persons then.

This Group Has Successfully Converted White Supremacists Using Compassion. Trump Defunded It. Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Life After Hate is a Chicago-based nonprofit that does path-breaking work. Founded by former white supremacist leaders in 2011, it studies the forces that draw people to hate and helps those who are willing to disengage from radical extremist movements. In June, the Department of Homeland Security revoked a grant to the nonprofit, telling The Huffington Post that it wants to focus on funding groups that work with law enforcement.

This is What Plutocracy Looks LikeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Mr. Trump is the quintessential plutocrat-- a self-interested man of inherited means and limited life experience who stumbled upward through political economy engineered to benefit his class. It is this very public nature of his 'success' that attaches class culpability to his actions.

Thoreau at 200Don't Let Bill Gates Ban the HoeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In support of the so-called 'Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa,' Bill Gates is telling African women in remote villages to put down their hand-held hoes.

Three Years Since the Kitty Litter Disaster at Waste Isolation Pilot PlantResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017There is a place in the United States, almost half-a-mile underground, in a salt mine, where radioactive waste leftover from the production of tens of thousands of nuclear bombs was to be held separate from all contact with humanity for 10,000 years, equivalent to the entire history of civilization. This separation of civilization from the byproduct of its folly had lasted one-tenth of one percent of that immense time when on Valentine's Day, three years ago, an explosion sent the deadly contamination back to the world of humans.

Throw Sand in the Gears of EverythingResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A call for strategic and effective organizing against the Trump presidency, drawing on historical precedent of antiwar and other movements in the US.

Time to Confront the Media's Anti-Corbyn BiasResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Jeremy Corbyn has been subjected to unprecedented vilification by the British media. No one is surprised that the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Times have been relentless in their hatchet jobs on Corbyn. But it has been disconcerting for the left that the Guardian and BBC never gave him a chance either. He was in their gun-sights from day one.

Title IX Witchhunts, Anti-Sex Frenzy and Bourgeois FeminismUnwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus - A ReviewResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Is the specter of sex haunting the campus? Under the pretense of targeting sexual harassment and assault, university administrations have been whipping up a climate of fear and imposing neo-Victorian values. As the recent book Unwanted Advances - Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus (HarperCollins Publishers, April 2017) argues, "The new campus codes aren't preventing nonconsensual sex; they're producing it. Written by Northwestern University professor and self-described left-wing feminist Laura Kipnis, the book exposes the vastly expanded definitions of sexual assault, which criminalize anything from drunken hook-ups to student-professor romance and even allow for consent to be withdrawn retroactively.

To conserve tropical forests and wildlife, protect the rights of people who rely on themResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Who are the best guardians of forests and other wild places? Governments? Conservation NGOs? Corporations? No, writes Prakash Kashwan, it's the indigenous peoples who have lived in harmony with their environment for millennia. But to be able do so, they must first be accorded rights to their historic lands and resources, both in law and in practice.

To discover the 'rights of a river', first think like a riverResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017There is a growing global movement to recognise the rights of rivers. But rights alone are not enough. We must love and respect rivers, and even think like rivers to understand the vital functions they perform within landscapes and ecosystems, and so discover where their 'best interests' truly lie. And then we must be willing to act: protecting rivers and restoring them to health and wholeness.

Tomorrow Belongs to the CorporatocracyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Virtually every major organ of the Western media apparatus (the most powerful propaganda machine in the annals of powerful propaganda machines) has been relentlessly churning out variations on a new official ideological narrative designed to generate and enforce conformity.

Tomorrow's powerResource Type: Film/VideoFirst Published: 2017An award-winning documentary that follows stories of communities in Germany, Gaza and Colombia that are challenging current power structures, leading to possibilities of a future with both social and climate justice. Runtime: 76 min.

Toward a Marxist Interpretation of the US ConstitutionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017According to Bertell Ollman, what is in danger of being lost among all the patriotic non-sequiturs is the underside of criticism and protest that had accompanied the Constitution from its very inception.

Toxicity and ResistanceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In a political moment that tends to inspire overwhelming anger, apprehension and fear rather than hope or energy, I suggest that we look towards those who have made resistance a daily part of their lives out of necessity and determination.

The tragedy of liberal environmentalismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The tragedy of liberal environmentalism is that it occupies the political discourse as the most pragmatic, the most possible way to a better future, but implementing this watered down, technical environmental politics is not at all smooth, or easy. It is rather Sisyphean. This is the tragic political circumstance of our times: What is framed as easy, as the most compatible with the status quo, is actually so very, very hard.

The Trial of Sacco and VenzettiResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017On May 5 both men were arrested for the Braintree murders. They were armed, Vanzetti with a .38 revolver, Sacco with a .32 Colt pistol.

Trials of the Russian RevolutionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book reviews of The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution by Tariq Ali; The Russian Revolution: When Workers Took Power by Paul Vernadsky; The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin; and Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 by S. A. Smith.

Trump and DuterteResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Philippines President Duterte presents himself as a nationalist who is especially opposed to the continuing strong influence of the former colonial power, the United States.

Trump, fake news and the war on dissidentsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A rebuke to a recent Guardian article titled "If mainstream news wants to win back trust, it cannot silence dissident voices", where journalist Nick Robinson claims that the left and right are the peddlers of the same "fakery" in attacking the media.

Trump Insults the Media, but Bush Bullied and Defanged It to Sell the Iraq WarResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Bush was anything but a friend of the press during his presidency. Maybe he didnt demonize it as much as Trump does -- but he actively manipulated it and bullied it far worse and far more effectively than Trump has, much of it in the service of selling his marquee policy: the war in Iraq.

Trump Is the Only One Losing Out by Refusing to Certify the Iran DealResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017While commentators across the world struggle to adequately convey their outrage over Trump's withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear agreement, Iran is calculating that nothing they do will be quite so damaging to US interests as Trump himself.

Trump Is the Only One Losing Out by Refusing to Certify the Iran DealResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017As President Trump withdraws certification of the nuclear agreement with Iran, commentators across the world struggled for words to adequately convey their outrage and contempt. A favourite term to describe Trump is as "a wrecking ball", but the phrase suggests a sense of direction and capacity to strike a target which Trump does not possess.

Trump v. the Media: a Fight to the DeathResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017At present, this is a golden era in American journalism, because established media outlets such as CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post find themselves under unprecedented and open attacks from the powers that be. Richard Nixon may have felt persecuted by press and television, but he never counter-attacked with the same vigour and venom as Trump.

Trump and the Middle EastResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Trump tweets about keeping refugees out of the United States, and zeroes out the grossly inadequate U.S. humanitarian aid budget. It all poses the question: Which is the real "failed state"?

The Trump-Netanyahu Circus: Now, No One Can Save Israel from ItselfResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The President of the United States can hardly be taken seriously, saying much but doing little. His words, often offensive, carry no substance, and it is impossible to summarize his complex political outlook about important issues. This is precisely the type of American presidency that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, prefers.

Trump the GardenerResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In an interview defending his Presidential candidate, Silicon Valley billionaire and undisguised self-interested Randian fanboy Peter Thiel assured the public that when Donald Trump asserted that he would build a mighty wall along the US Mexican border, what he really meant was that he would impose a 'saner, more sensible immigration policy'.

The Trump WayResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Arun Gupta spoke to Leo Panitch about Trump's economic agenda, his relationship to transnational elites, and how neoliberalism's crisis could mean revitalization for the Left.

Trump's Muslim Ban Will Only Spark More Terrorist AttacksResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees and visitors from seven Muslim countries entering the US makes a terrorist attack on Americans at home or abroad more rather than less likely. It does so because one of the main purposes of al-Qaeda and Isis in carrying out atrocities is to provoke an over-reaction directed against Muslim communities and states.

Trump's 'No Fly Zone' Escalates U.S. War Against SyriaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The June 18th destruction of a Syrian government aircraft by a U.S. fighter jet underscores the fact that U.S. and its imperial allies in Syria will attack any and all forces that seek to interfere with U.S. imperialist objectives.

Trump's Reviled Hotline for "Criminal Aliens" Flooded with Reports of UFOsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has unveiled its controversial immigrant crime office, complete with a hotline for U.S. citizens to report alleged crimes committed by undocumented aliens. The hotline was promptly overwhelmed with calls about extraterrestrials and UFOs.

Trump's Road to RuinResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The editors address Trump's early assaults on democratic principles and institutions, from the snarling menace of his "America First" inaugural address, to his cabinet of multi-millionaire and billionaire reactionaries, to the pending removal of millions of people from health insurance, to assaulting women's reproductive rights and attempting to bar Muslim travelers, to attacking Black youth and every vulnerable population.

Trump's Transition Team Colluded With Israel. Why Isn't That News?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Hasan asks the question: why aren't more members of Congress or the media discussing the Trump transition team's pretty brazen collusion with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to undermine both U.S. government policy and international law?

Trump's War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He PromisedResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Although precise numbers are difficult to obtain, there seems little question that the number of civilians being killed by the U.S. in Iraq and Syria -- already quite high under Obama -- has increased precipitously during the first two months of the Trump administration.

A Turkey Divided by Erdogan Will Become Prey to Its EnemiesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017What critics claim is the openly fraudulent Turkish referendum ends parliamentary democracy in the country and gives President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dictatorial powers. The most unexpected aspect of the poll on Sunday was not the declared outcome, but that the ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) allegedly found it necessary to fix the vote quite so blatantly.

Turning Perpetrators into HealersResource Type: UnclassifiedFirst Published: 2017Innocent people -- or "innocently guilty" people, like the junior senator from Minnesota -- often get unfairly hung out to dry. Should he have to resign? Who among us (Roy? Donald?) hasn't committed worse transgressions? And shouldn't a person's positive achievements be factored into the severity of his punishment, at least when no permanent damage has occurred?

Twelve Reasons to Oppose Rules on Digital Commerce in the WTOResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017US-based transnational companies in the fields of information, technology and media are working to create international rules that limit the ability of governments to put restrictions on how they make profits.

The 24 hour day: women, work and classResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Movements of women, as well as those involving large numbers of women, will increasingly be features of resistance to neoliberalism. The extent to which they succeed will be the extent to which they are able to challenge the class basis of neoliberalism, and its consequences.

Two Decades of Monsanto's Illegal Actions, Frauds and Crimes in IndiaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Over the two decades since Monsanto entered India, it has violated laws, deceived Indian farmers by making unscientific and fraudulent claims, extracted super profits through illegal royalty collection by violating Indias Patent and Intellectual Property laws, pushed farmers into debt, and, as a consequence of the debt trap, to suicide.

Two Soviet Spies Who Deserve a Posthumous Nobel Peace PrizeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall, both scientists working on the Manhattan Project, should receive posthumous Nobel Peace Prizes for actions that almost certainly saved millions of innocent lives.

The Ugly Side of AntifaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017When you criticize Antifa members or their defenders for the tactic of mob violence, the reflexive response is usually something like, "There are literal Nazis marching in the streets, and you're attacking us over your precious little non-violence principles?" But Antifa doesn't have a monopoly over concern for what's happening in this country.

UK exporting 67% of plastic waste amid 'illegal practices' warningsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Britain's trade in waste plastic to the Far East is booming. The exported plastic is meant to be recycled under UK conditions and standards, but often is not, undermining bona fide UK recycling firms who face falling prices, reduced turnover, collapsing profits, and all too often, closure.

The UK Is Among the World's Largest Suppliers of Weapons -- and Is Making Arms Boycotts IllegalDespite human rights abuses, the UK continues to sell arms to Israel and crack down on dissent.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Through 'open' trade conventions such as the Security & Policing (S&P) exhibition and closed events such as the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) fair, the UK allows local and international companies to showcase some of the world's most lethal weapons.

Uncertainty shapes immigrant life in the United StatesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Immigrants in the United States without legal residency or who were admitted on a temporary basis feel that their lives have become much more complicated in 2017 because of the current Republican administration's intention to expel thousands of Latin Americans even though they are successfully integrated into the local economy and have no criminal record.

The Unclaimed DeadIn Texas, the Bodies of Migrants Who Perished in the Desert Provide Clues to the LivingResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Operation Identification, a program began in 2013 amid a swirl of grassroots organizing, lead the exhumation of more than 50 unidentified human remains from a rural graveyard named Sacred Heart.

Under Attack at San Francisco State UniversityResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Students, staff and faculty at San Francisco State University are under investigation by the university on trumped up charges of anti-Semitism brought forth by San Francisco Hillel. This is the latest in a long history of accusations made against Palestinians and Palestinian advocates at SFSU by the pro-Israel organization.

Undermining Democracy - Corporate Media Bias on Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson and SyriaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Are we able to prove the existence of a corporate media campaign to undermine British democracy? Media analysis is not hard science, but in this alert we provide compelling evidence that such a campaign does indeed exist. Compare coverage of comments made on Syria by a spokesman for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in October 2016 and by UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson in January 2017.

Unfinished BusinessResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The failure of Nicolás Maduro's government to maintain popular living standards has allowed the right-wing opposition to take control of Venezuela's National Assembly, resulting in a bitter standoff between executive and legislature that has yet to be resolved one way or another.

An Unholy AllianceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Fleischmann looks at the reasons behind the unlikely alliance that has formed between Trump, the alt-right, and Israel, who have based their support for each other around shared enemies.

U.S. Has Only Acknowledged A Fifth of Its Lethal Strikes, New Study FindsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017While Obama took steps to improve transparency about drone strikes, reports show that the U.S. has only acknowledged approximately 20 percent of its reported drone strikes, and failed to claim responsibility or provide details in the vast majority of cases.

The U.S. is Not a Democracy, It Never WasResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017There is no contradiction or supposed loss of democracy because the United States simply never was one. This is a difficult reality for many people to confront, and they are likely more inclined to immediately dismiss such a claim as preposterous rather than take the time to scrutinize the material historical record in order to see for themselves

The U.S. Pushed North Korea to Build Nukes: Yes or No?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Washington's policy toward North Korea for the last 64 years entirely based on the assumption that you can persuade people to do what you want them to do through humiliation, intimidation and brute force.

U.S., UK and France Denounce Nuclear Ban TreatyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The U.S., UK and France did not participate in the United Nations negotiations leading to the recent adoption of the nuclear ban treaty, and joined together in expressing their outright defiance of the newly-adopted treaty.

The Universal Lesson of East TimorResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Filming undercover in East Timor in 1993 I followed a landscape of crosses: great black crosses etched against the sky, crosses on peaks, crosses marching down the hillsides, crosses beside the road. They littered the earth and crowded the eye.

The Unraveling Middle EastShifting Sands: The Unraveling of the Old Order in the Middle EastResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Raja Shehadeh's and Penny Johnson's Shifting Sands: The Unraveling of the Old Order in the Middle East.

UN's 1947 Partition Plan made Palestine a deal it had to refuseResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Weinroth analyzes the reasons behind Palestinians' refusal of the Partition Plan, reasons that have been largely dismissed in favour of casting their actions in an unfavourable light and thereby justifying Israeli colonization.

Unspeakable: the Black Book of Imperial TerrorismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017American "mainstream" journalists who want to keep their paychecks flowing and their status afloat know they must report current events in a way that respects the taboo status of the nation's underlying inequality and oppression structures and its savage and relentless imperial criminality.

Untouchable - The Uses And Misuses Of 'Genocide Denial'Resource Type: UnclassifiedFirst Published: 2017One of the wonders of contemporary propaganda is the extent to which corporate commentators are in denial about their use of the term 'genocide denial'. Clearly, they believe they are using a neutral, objective term to describe indisputable facts of genocidal killing and ugly refusals to recognise those facts. The delusion is quickly exposed when we ask a few simple questions. For example: how often do we see 'mainstream' commentators describing US-UK sanctions on Iraq from 1990-2003 as 'genocidal', as affirmed by senior UN diplomats? How often do journalists describe supporters of the devastating Bush-Blair war on Iraq, the Obama-Cameron war on Libya, or May's war on Yemen as 'genocide deniers'? Can we imagine someone who supported the war on Libya being called an 'Obama apologist'? Like 'terror' and 'terrorism', 'genocide' and 'genocide denial' are simply not terms that are applied to Western actions. This really awesome level of bias points to the reality that 'genocide denial' is a propaganda term overwhelmingly used to portray Official Enemies as morally and intellectually despicable, in fact untouchable. As used in the 'mainstream', the term is antirational, an attack on honest debate.

US Spy Chief Presents Third-Party Debates as Proof RT Is Anti-USResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Office of the Director of National Intelligences latest report on the alleged "election hacking" by Russia includes a substantial section focused around the idea that Russian government-funded channel RT is overtly anti-American.

Using Children for Israeli PropagandaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Engler brings to light Canadian schools' practices that indoctrinate students with problematic colonial, Zionist views.

The Value of CapitalResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Roberts responds to David Harvey's review of his publication "Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital" by defending and opening up a discussion regarding the theories presented in Marx's "Capital," and how they connect with the rest of his oeuvre.

Venezuala in the Media: Double Standards and First ImpressionsResource Type: UnclassifiedFirst Published: 2017This article looks into the inconsistent ways that Venzuala has been portrayed in the media, and the effect of sensationalizing the recent crisis. It concludes that those who support the Venezuelan poor, workings classes must seek and spread honest information outside of the mainstream narrative.

Venezuela: the capitalist offensive - has socialism failed?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The current economic, social, and political crisis taking place in Venezuala has not been caused by a failure of socialism, but rather is the result of the country's inability to distance itself from capitalism, and introduce a democratic, socialist, and planned economy.

Venezuela Elections: Resurgent Chavismo and 'Unrecognised' DemocracyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017After weeks of imperialist threats and opposition violence, the elections for the Constituent Assembly (ANC) in Venezuela took place on July 30th. The result was a massive turnout of over 8 million voters, around 41% of the electorate, which gave chavismo a much-needed shot in the arm. The western media reacted by trying to dispute the number and sticking even closer to the narrative being pushed by the opposition and the US State Department.

Venezuela on the Edge of Civil WarResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Venezuela is a step closer to civil war after the July 20, 2017 "fake referendum" held by the government opposition, which resulted in a vote of "no confidence" for President Nicolas Maduro.

Venezuela: Target of Economic WarfareWhat the heck is really going on in Venezuela? A complex story lies behind the offical narrative.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The article examines elements of Venezuala's economic warfare, role as global provider of oil, and the country's relationship with the Trump administration, to provide a multi-faceted picture of the country's recent violent events.

Venezuelan Opposition "Consultation"Playing Alone and LosingResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Venezuelan opposition "referendum", which in reality was nothing more than a non-binding 'consultation' without any legal status, was predicted as a major political earthquake that would instantly change the country's landscape.

Via Campesina Declaration of the Forum on Food Sovereignty, Territories of Peace for a Dignified Life 2017Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The participants of the Forum on Food Sovereignty held in the city of Buenos Aires on December 12th and 13th [2017] want to express our agreements regarding the construction of territories of peace for the people: the peasants of the world and every community struggling to remain in our ancestral territories and to continue feeding humanity, as we have done for the last ten thousand years, while at the same time fighting for a worthy life in the cities with healthy, locally produced food.

Victory in Stagnation? Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An analysis of the direction of the German left party, Die Linke, in the wake of the 2017 national elections.

Vietnam Revisited During Trump's Bonkers BrinkmanshipResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017I returned to Vietnam in April, having not been there since the war, nearly 50 years ago. I'd sailed there as a seaman in the National Maritime Union (NMU) on a cargo ship carrying war materiel from the naval ammo base in Port Chicago, California.

The Vietnam War is Not History for Victims of Agent OrangeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Nearly 58,000 Americans and 2 to 3 million Vietnamese, many of them civilians, were killed in the war. Untold numbers were wounded. Many US veterans of the war suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. More US Vietnam War vets have committed suicide than died in the war. However, those numbers do not begin to tell the complete story of the war.

The view from different planetsConnecting wildfires and climate change proscribed only on Planet AlbertaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The political discourse surrounding climate change and wildfires is almost nonexistent in Alberta.

Village demolition based on Israel's 'racist' planResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, residents say the closing of an investigation into the killing of Yacoub Abu al-Qiyan is evidence of a wider strategy to drive residents out of the rural community.

Wag The Dog -- How Al Qaeda Played Donald Trump And The American MediaResponsibility for the chemical event in Khan Sheikhoun is still very much in question.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Once upon a time, Donald J. Trump, the New York City businessman-turned-president, berated then-President Barack Obama, back in September 2013, about the fallacy of an American military strike against Syria. At that time, the United States was considering the use of force against Syria in response to allegations (since largely disproven) that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons against civilians in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Trump, via tweet, declared "to our very foolish leader, do not attack Syria - if you do many very bad things will happen & from that fight the U.S. gets nothing!"

Want to Stop Trump? Take a Page From These Dockworkers, and Stop WorkResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017On the day of Donald Trump's inauguration, many Americans wrung their hands. Some took to social media to express their discontent while others protested. But, perhaps, the most dramatic and important action was taken by dockworkers in Oakland, California: They stopped working. Their strike demonstrated the potential power ordinary people have on the job, when organized.

The War at HomeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A question often arises whether Trump is a genuine representative of the aims of the capitalist ruling class in general and the Republican right wing in particular, or a self-centered rogue with serious and potentially dangerous personality disorders. The answer is that he's actually both.

The War Over MangoesResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Growing mangoes in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has racked up an enormous socio-political expense for the region far greater than the price tag on the fruit in the supermarket. For a Mexican drug cartel desperate to move product, hiding illicit drugs in mango shipments is a risky but viable cover for getting them to the U.S. market. For the people of Oaxaca, however, the infiltration of one of the regions most important industries indicates the threat of a life controlled by drug violence and its wide-ranging effects on society.

Warnings from First Americans: Insidious Changes Are Underway that Will Affect Us AllResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Rural America In These Times spoke to Native Americans--people whose survival requires being extremely well informed about what all branches of the federal government are up to. From their vantage point as sovereign entities with direct government-to-government relationships with the United States, the tribes have a unique perspective on issues including voting rights, the economy, the extractive industries' hold over this administration and more.

WartimeThe First World War in a Canadian TownResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017What World War I meant to daily life in a Canadian community becomes clear in this book about the war years in Guelph, Ontario.

Was the "Russian Hack" an Inside Job?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Forensic studies of "Russian hacking" into Democratic National Committee computers last year reveal that on July 5, 2017, data was leaked (not hacked) by a person with physical access to DNC computers, and then doctored to incriminate Russia.

Washington and Berlin on a Collision CourseResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The Russia sanctions bill that passed the US Senate on June 15, 2017 directly demonizes the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, under the Baltic Sea, which is bound to double Gazprom's energy capacity to supply gas to Europe.

Watch How Casually False Claims Are Published: New York Times and Nicholas Lemann EditionResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017We have a perfect example of how this happens from the New York Times today, in a book review by Nicholas Lemann, the Pulitzer-Moore professor of journalism at Columbia University as well as a longtime staff writer for the New Yorker. Lemann is reviewing a new book by Edward J. Epstein -- the longtime neocon, right-wing Cold Warrior, WSJ op-ed page writer, and Breitbart contributor -- which basically claims Snowden is a Russian spy.

Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow MuseumResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors uses images from the Jim Crow Museum, the nation's largest publicly accessible collection of racist objects. These images are evidence of the social injustice that Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as "a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be exposed to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured." Each chapter concludes with a story from the author's journey, challenging the integrity of racial narratives.

Waving From the RooftopsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The drug Narcan (Naxalone) has skyrocketed in price due to the heroine and opioide crisis. Political response shows disregard for not only drug addicts, but the welfare and lives of all people under capitalism.

We Didn't Start the FireClass conflict isn't something we choose to engage in. It's just how capitalism works.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Day urges the historically Liberal US Democratic party to turn to the left, embracing class conflict as an integral component of left-wing politics.

We Know What Inspired the Manchester Attack, We Just Won't Admit ItResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Not blaming Muslims in general but targeting "radicalisation" or simply "evil" may appear sensible and moderate, but in practice it makes the motivation of the killers in Manchester or the Bataclan theatre in Paris in 2015 appear vaguer and less identifiable than it really is.

We Need to Talk about Women: The Problem with Western Liberal 'Feminists'Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Western women have fought hard and bravely for rights and privileges that were denied to generations of women before them and have made vast strides towards greater equality and representation in society. For this, western women and traditional feminism should be applauded. At the same time, the version of feminism that presently functions in the west -- liberal, consumer, mainstream feminism -- has become problematic.

We shouldn't weep for broke but lying mainstream mediaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A report from the Public Policy Forum of Montreal released on January 26 says the Canadian news industry "is reaching a crisis point as the decline of traditional media, fragmentation of audiences and the rise of fake news pose a growing threat to the health of our democracy." Whereas the 1970 report was entitled "The Uncertain Mirror", the new appeal for support is called "The Shattered Mirror."

Welcome to the Witchhuntor Would the Labour Party Expel Einstein for Antisemitism?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017

What Corporate Media Never Tells You about North KoreaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017There is a great deal of propaganda and deliberate misinformation about North Korea, which the public should know. While neocons, a cheering corporate media, and Deep State, rush to war with North Korea, information is the ultimate weapon. For example, did you know that North Korea, China, and India, are the only three nations who have committed to a "no nuclear first" policy.

What is Happening in Catalonia and Spain?Resource Type: UnclassifiedFirst Published: 2017Vincente Navarro explains the historcal background to the Catalonian independence referendum results in 2017, and notes the political challenges this movement will face.

What is Objective Journalism?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Despite objectivity being widely accepted as a norm in journalism, Edwards discusses how opinion and bias are still an inherent part of 'reporting the facts.'

What Is Reproductive Justice?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Reproductive justice means having full control over all aspects of our sexual and reproductive lives, which means an end to all sexual violence.

What Kind of Opposition?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017To address the millions of Trump supporters whose lives are devastated by his government... requires building an independent - and yes, socialist - left with uncompromising loyalty to the working class and oppressed people of the United States and the world, not to the liberal wing of capital or the Democratic Party.

What Makes Americans ProudThe Anti-Empire Report #152Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Donald Trump thinks that everyone will be impressed that the American military has never been stronger. Lucky for the man his seeming incapacity for moral or intellectual embarrassment.Hes twice blessed. His fans like the idea that their president is no smarter than they are. This may well serve to get the man re-elected, as it did with George W. Bush.

What Obsessing About Trump Causes Us To MissResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Since the late eighteenth century, the United States has been involved in an almost ceaseless string of wars, interventions, punitive expeditions, and other types of military ventures abroad  from fighting the British and Mexicans to the Filipinos and Koreans to the Vietnamese and Laotians to the Afghans and Iraqis. The country has formally declared war 11 times and has often engaged in undeclared conflicts with some form of congressional authorization, as with the post-9/11 "wars" that rage on today.

What the Media isn't Telling You About North Korea's Missile TestsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Here's what the media isn't telling you about North Korea's recent missile tests.Last Monday, the DPRK fired a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan's Hokkaido Island. The missile landed in the waters beyond the island harming neither people nor property.The media immediately condemned the test as a "bold and provocative act"

What's left of Pakistan's left?For those in Pakistan who want to explore a non neo-liberal, non-right wing option, the Left is there in some form.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Menon recounts her discovery of the emerging political Left in Pakistan and reflects on its future. Awami Workers Party featured.

The Wheel Has Come Full CircleWhat Went Wrong: The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist AnalysisResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Dan La Botz's What Went Wrong: The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis.

When a Radio Host Interviews a War Criminal, Is It Churlish to Ask About His War Crimes?A letter to New York's popular WNYC-NPR radio host Brian LehrerResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An open letter to NPR radio host Brian Leher, critizing the host for not providing greater context and background for his guest Elliott Abrams, who was a go to-guy for U.S.-funded terrorism, and helped arrange the overthrow of democratically elected governments throughout Latin America and the Middle East.

When Israel's friends in Labour advocated genocideResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Every so often Labour Friends of Israel pays tribute to Richard Crossman, an early activist with the British pressure group and one of the best known British politicians of the mid-20th century. The tributes to the late cabinet minister are not entirely informative.One detail that tends to be omitted is that, when it came to Palestine, Crossman advocated genocide.

When Progressives Start Abandoning Free SpeechResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In the wake of attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia there were a number of rallies in Canadian cities. The anti-racist counter-demonstrators hugely outnumbered their rally opponents, constituting phenomenal public solidarity against racism. There was much to be cheered in these events. One thing dampened this amazing response. It was how, for some, denouncing hate slid into denouncing speech rights and into dangerous calls for governments to prevent rallies.

When the Alt-Right Hits CampusResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Under the auspices of the "Alt Right" and its wannabe hipster version of white nationalism, the University of Michigan community was subjected to a bombardment of racist hate that many of us thought relegated to the pre-Obama past.

When White Supremacists MarchResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The rally, featuring white nationalist groups such as the Nationalist Front and the League of the South as well as white supremacist "superstars" like Richard Spencer and David Duke projected violence from its first moments.

When Will Co-opted Figures and Board Members Be Hauled into Court?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017They promote the message that their products are essential to our survival. They promote a fundamentally ecologically, socially and economically damaging model of agriculture facilitated by Washington, the World Trade Organization, World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

Where Did Britain's Racists Go?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A year ago Britain voted to exit the European Union. Anyone who wanted to leave the EU was deemed to be a racist, a caveman, an irrational nationalist and even a drunk fool. However today  exactly one year later, some are talking about a "soft" Brexit or even no Brexit. Has Britain changed so much in a year?

Where the Anti-Russian Moral Panic is Leading UsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017This is how the smear campaign scores points: you don't have to be on the Russian payroll -- you can be a "useful idiot" just because of your political views, which condemn you as an "unwitting" agent, as former CIA director Mike Morell described Trump. This is how the parameters of "respectable" opinion are policed: this is how the War Party criminalizes those who think that the cold war is over and shouldn't be revived.

Where's the Evidence?The CIA-FBI-NSA report on the hacking of the 2016 election is pure baloneyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017We are told from the outset that the actual evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC and John Podesta's emails as part of a wide-ranging campaign to put Donald Trump in the White House cannot be revealed: "source and methods" must be kept secret. This in spite of DNI director James Clapper's pledge that he would declassify as much of the evidence as possible in the interests of transparency: but then again, Clapper is an admitted liar.

Which Way to the Barricades?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017What was the mass strike and what would a successful one look like today?

Whiteness AgainResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Whiteness is a protection racket that used to provide material bonuses. It is a minimally advantageous deal that the ruling class continuously renegotiates with a part of the working class, and the first such deal happened before the founding of the United States.

Who Are the "Alt-Right"? On the Rise of Reactionary Hatred and How to Fight itResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017With much of the public discussing strategies for how best to fight right-wing extremism, the need for constructive solutions is greater than ever. First and foremost, its important to point out that public support for far-right extremists is miniscule. The vast majority of Americans reject this movement's violence and hatred. According to a Marist survey from the summer of 2017, just 4 percent of Americans said they support "white supremacy movement" or "white nationalism." Similarly, just 6 percent embraced the term "alt-right" Still, there is a legitimate concern that support for right-wing bigotry may grow in the future if left unchecked.

Who Built the Panama Canal?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Donald Trump might not know it, but the United States didn't build the Panama Canal. Workers did.

Who Could Ever Feel Pride in the Balfour Declaration?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Although the Balfour Declaration itself has been parsed, de-semanticised, romanticised, decrypted, decried, cursed and adored for 100 years, its fraud is easy to detect: it made two promises which were fundamentally opposed to each other -- and thus one of them, to the Arabs (aka "the existing non-Jewish communities"), would be broken.

Who Put Trump in the White House?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The media story in the days following the 2016 election was that a huge defection of angry, white, blue-collar workers in the Rust Belt from their traditional Democratic voting patterns put Donald J. Trump in the White House in a grand slap at the nation's "liberal" elite. But is that the real story?

Who to Believe: The CIA and Corporate Media or WikiLeaks?Without Substantiation, Media Integrity SuffersResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Imagine if justice were administered mainly on hearsay (ignoring the fact that justice is too often lacking in society). It is a cardinal rule of justice that rendering a decision of guilty must only be done when such guilt is beyond a reasonable doubt. Medical schools state they follow evidence-based practices. Nursing schools do the same. Science progresses through the scientific method which demands evidence. When observations and experimental results contravene theory, the theory is tossed. There is academia, and then there is politics and the corporate media. Politics and its corporate media has long since become risible within the sphere of serious contemplation.

Who Voted for Germany's New Nazis?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Klikauer examines the rise of the far-Right in Germany, with reference to unresolved inequalities post re-uinification, changing demographics and media interests.

Whos Afraid of Corporate COINTELPRO?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017On November 30, 2016, presumably right at the stroke of midnight, Google Inc. unpersoned CounterPunch. They didn't send out a press release or anything. They just quietly removed it from the Google News aggregator. Not very many people noticed.

Whose seeds are they anyway?Real Farming ReportResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The new People Need Nature report - published to coincide with this week's annual Oxford Real Farming Conference - warns that modern farming practices are not good for wildlife. But they're not good for humans either. And with predictions that we will need to produce 70 per cent more food to feed a third more mouths by 2050 the question of seed ownership and diversity cannot be ignored.

Whose Streets? Their StreetsResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017If people dont believe that the police in America are the greatest threat to civil society then they've been asleep for years, and comatose just this week. Or they're white, privileged and/or accepting of brutality against their own fellow citizens.

Why the Anti-Trump Resistance Movement Should Not Initiate ViolenceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017One hazard we must avoid in our struggle is to allow violence to be used in the movement. We can't afford to give our approval to this by green lighting the burning of limousines and the breaking of store windows, as happened in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2017, or by punching the Nazi Richard Spencer in the face, which is satisfying but unproductive.

Why Are All Those Racists So Terrified?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Past efforts, whatever personnel, resources and strategies have been devoted to them, have done nothing to address the underlying cause of racism and so their impact must be superficial and temporary. As the record demonstrates.

Why Are Police In The USA So Terrified?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The routine killing of innocent civilians by the police has become a national crisis despite concerted attempts by political and legal authorities and the corporate media to obscure what is happening.

Why Can't the U.S. Left Get Venezuela Right?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017As Venezuela's fascist-minded oligarchy conspires with U.S. imperialism to overthrow the democratically elected government of Nicolas Maduro, few in the U.S. seem to care.

Why Culture MattersResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In order to engage in a meaningful dialogue about 'cultural appropriation' we have to reject the framing that critics like Bari Weiss give it -- where culture becomes just another market.

Why Did the US Use Depleted Uranium Weapons in Syria?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The recent confirmation by the US that DU ammunition was used in two attacks in Syria in late 2015 raises a number of troubling questions. Firstly, why was DU used? Has it been used again? Will it be used again?

Why I Support the Palestinian Right of ReturnResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The repatriation of Palestinian refugees is is a very real and practical concept for which there is ample historical precedent as well as practical means of implementation.

Why ICE Raids Imperil Us AllResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Millions of people who have been living and working in the U.S., contributing to their communities and to the economy, are now at risk simply for who they are: people "without papers."

Why Imperial Washington Should Cool It On North KoreaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The author argues that an enhanced package of sanctions, UN resolutions, diplomatic pressures and miltary threats against North Korea is futile; indeed Washington has been doing this for years and it hasn't worked yet, and a more robust version directed at North Korea won't work now.

Why is the New York Times promoting the "black bloc"?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A New York Times article, which ran across four columns of the newspaper's front page under a huge photo of a black-masked individual preparing to break an office building window with an iron bar during Wednesday night's protests at the University of California, Berkeley, amounted to free publicity and promotion of the violent protests organized by elements identifying themselves as the "black bloc," anti-fascists and anarchists.

Why is the media promoting Antifa?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The promotion of Antifa serves several interrelated functions. First, the physical violence of a handful of protesters in any large demonstration is regularly used as a pretext for police provocation. This is true not only in the US, but in Europe and around the world. Police give the "anti-fascist" and anarchist groups a free hand to carry out provocations, which are then exploited to carry out a violent crackdown. The groups themselves are easily infiltrated by police provocateurs, who encourage violent acts for the desired end.

Why is the West praising Malala, but ignoring Ahed?Is an empowered Palestinian girl not worthy of Western feminist admiration?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Khoja-Moolji examines the lack of media response to the plight of 16 year-old Ahed Tamimi, detained for allegedly assaulting an Israeli soldier during a confrontation at her home during which Israeli soldiers shot a fourteen-year-old child.

Why Is There No 'Saudi-Gate'?Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017For decades, the DC establishment has been on the payroll of a foreign terror state. But because it's Saudi Arabia, you won't hear a peep.

Why Israelis must disrupt the occupationResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Even dedicated dedicated well-meaning Israelis do far too little and use far too little of their privilege to challenge and combat the injustice meted out against Palestinians.

Why Palestine is Still the IssueResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The longest occupation and resistance in modern times is a crime that has been suppressed in the intellectual and political culture of the West.

Why Ridiculous Official Propaganda Still WorksResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Chief among the common misconceptions about the way official propaganda works is the notion that its goal is to deceive the public into believing things that are not "the truth" (that Trump is a Russian agent, for example, or that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, or that the terrorists hate us for our freedom, et cetera). However, while official propagandists are definitely pleased if anyone actually believes whatever lies they are selling, deception is not their primary aim.

Why the CIA Cares About MarxismResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Abundant evidence of course exists of the CIA's complex cultural interventions into French intellectual affairs -- but it is critical to recognise that it was the political shortcomings of communist organizations themselves (i.e., Stalinists) that had the determinant impact on the obscurantist trajectory of left-wing academic ideas.

Why We Must Oppose the Kremlin-Baiting Against TrumpThe Russia-connected allegations have created an atmosphere of hysteria amounting to McCarthyism.Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017The bipartisan, nearly full-political-spectrum tsunami of factually unverified allegations that President Trump has been seditiously "compromised" by the Kremlin, with scarcely any nonpartisan pushback from influential political or media sources, is deeply alarming. Begun by the Clinton campaign in mid-2016, and exemplified now by New York Times columnists (who write of a Trump-Putin regime in Washington), strident MSNBC hosts, and unbalanced CNN commentators, the practice is growing into a latter-day McCarthyite hysteria. Such politically malignant practices should be deplored wherever they appear, whether on the part of conservatives, liberals, or progressives.

Why White Working Class Americans Are Dying "Deaths of Despair"Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Franklin examines the reasons behind the steadily growing mortality rates for working-class white Americans, which he attributes to both workplace hazards and mental illness resulting from joblessness, poverty, and despair.

WikiLeaks Vault 7 Reveals CIA Cyberwar and the Battleground of DemocracyResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017WikiLeaks dropped a bombshell on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named Vault 7, the whistleblowing site began releasing the largest publication of confidential documents that have come from the top secret security network at the Cyber Intelligence Center.

With Ash on Their FacesYezidi Women and the Islamic StateResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017A chronicle of ISIS' genocide of the Yezidis population in northern Iraq in 2014, including the enslavement and abuse of women and children, a persecution and tragedy that continues to this day.

The Women of 1917Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Women weren't just the Russian Revolutions spark, but the motor that drove it forward.

The Women's March Was a Dismal Failure and a Hopeful SignResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Despite what pundits said, the Womens March was not a movement. Nor was it the beginning of a movement. It was a moment: a show of hands: "I'm against Trump," these women (and men) told the world. Question was, who/what do they want to replace him?

The wonderful world of bossnappingResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A short introduction to and history of 'bossnapping', where workers detain their bosses in order to win demands.

Workers Hold the KeysResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017In a discussion of the history and practice of socialist ideas, Chibber and Farbman discuss precarity and the changing composition of the working class, how socialists should think about unions, and how the Left can get off the college campuses and into the workplaces and streets.

The World Must Learn From CubaResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017On the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, why has the small Caribbean nation outperformed many capitalist democracies in key ways despite fifty years of attack?

The World Through African EyesSecuring the Base: Making Africa Visible in the GlobeResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Book review of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Securing the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe.

World War I and Afterward: Upheaval, Repression and TerrorResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Following the April 1917 U.S. entry into World War I, a massive months-long strike wave occurred as workers in those industries, booming with wartime orders demanded improved conditions and better wages that were rapidly being outstripped by war-bred price increases.

World's Best Economist Tells All!Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017If you want to learn real economics instead of neoliberal junk economics, read Michael Hudsons books. What you will learn is that neoliberal economics is an apology for the rentier class and the large banks that have succeeded in financializing the economy, shifting consumer spending power from the purchase of goods and services that drive the real economy to the payment of interest and fees to banks.

Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of ExtractionResource Type: BookFirst Published: 2017Written in Blood features the work of Appalachias leading scholars and activists making available an accurate, ungilded, and uncensored understanding of our history. Combining new revelations from the past with sketches of a sane path forward, this is a deliberate collection looking at our past, present, and future.

W.W.E. the PeopleResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017An excerpt from Naomi Klein's book "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need", published by Haymarket Books.

Xulhaz Mannan: Murder of LGBTQ+ editor highlights danger facing all rational voices in BangladeshResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017 Published: 17The murder of Xulhaz Mannan, the founder and editor of Bangladesh's first and only LGBTQ+ magazine, Roopban, has drawn the world's attention to the violence directed against the country's outspoken supporters of equal rights. His death at the hands of six assailants sent a wave of fear through the community, and has prompted others to go into hiding.

Yanis Varoufakis's Self-Incriminating Account of the Greek Crisis - Parts 1 and 2Resource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017Part One: Proposals Doomed to FailIn his latest book, Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government's shameful capitulation in July 2015. It essentially analyses the period 2009-2015, though it makes incursions into earlier periods.With this voluminous work (550 pages), Yanis Varoufakis shows that he is a gifted narrator. At times he succeeds in moving the reader. His direct and vivid style makes it easy to follow events.This initial article will cover the first four chapters of a book that comprises 17 in all. It deals with the proposals Varoufakis made before he became a member of the government in January 2015.

You Are Not An ExperienceResource Type: ArticleFirst Published: 2017A growing number of intellectuals are arguing that free speech needs to be subordinated to the goal of protecting the feelings of people who don't want to hear views that they find threatening. They are wrong.